Morocco: Oldest Drug Lord Remains in Prison

Placed in preventive detention in prison, the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco has failed in his attempt to be released. This right was denied to him by the Tetouan Court of Appeal.

On Tuesday, the Tetouan Court of Appeal rejected the request for provisional release filed by the drug lord nicknamed “Limouni”. The services of the General Directorate of National Security, for their part, refused the individual waiver obtained by the accused from a retired police officer, who had been injured during an intervention aimed at arresting him. It emerges from the explanations of well-informed sources that it is the institution as a legal entity, which refuses to waive its rights and protects its employees, and not the person as such, who could waive in cases of personal conflicts outside the professional framework or in cases of exchange of blows and injuries or personal disputes outside work.