Tunisia – Ministry of Interior: Dismantling of large drug trafficking network

The Interior Ministry reported in a report that 11 individuals were apprehended (including two security guards at a major amusement park in the capital), along with 26 plates of cannabis and several pieces of “zatla”. » (packaged in cellophane ready for sale) were confiscated, as well as about 500 grams of cocaine, a certain number of narcotic tablets, two electronic scales, a sum of money amounting to 75 thousand dinars, a bank chequebook, 5 cars and a large quantity of luxury jewellery and watches.

This seizure comes as part of the fighting against the phenomenon of drug trafficking near tourist institutions and nightclubs, and thanks to executives and agents of the Drug Control Sub-Department of the Judicial Police Directorate in Al-Gorjani, carrying out on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, a series of searches against members of a network specializing in drug trafficking of all kinds, especially in the northern suburbs of the capital (Marsa, Gammarth), in coordination with the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Court of First Instance of Tunis.