Sebta: a police officer sentenced for stealing goods from a Moroccan

A Guardia Civil agent stationed at Tarajal, the border post between Ceuta and Morocco, was fined 150 euros for stealing a box of dates during a customs check last November.

The affair, revealed by the newspaper Ceuta lighthouseshows an act of improper appropriation committed by the official. During a routine inspection, the agent confiscated several crates of dates transported by a vehicle from Morocco, the quantity exceeding the authorized limit. The usual procedure provides for the destruction of the seized goods, but one of the boxes met a different fate.