Algeria Air Squadron Foils Smuggling Activities, ISIS Terrorist Infiltration

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2017/01/21
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Algeria Air Squadron Foils Smuggling Activities, ISIS Terrorist Infiltration

Smuggling cells suffered, over the past few months, large losses, at the time when a significant decline in the volume of smuggling was recorded after the ground security control and the air strikes across the west border, thanks to the helicopters of the National Gendarmerie, starting from the military air base of Mecheria that are patrolling with the military helicopters, the western border between Algeria and Morocco, in order to address the drug smuggling cells that come, and crack down on human smuggling barons and goods trafficking, and the infiltration of ISIS terrorists.

People can not log in to the military airbase in Mechera in Naama Province, only with a security clearance that is issued by the Department of Defense, as this place is the most secret in comparison to other bases, considering that this base receive up pictures that are captured by surveillance planes, and they all point to a single subject, which is the situation of Algeria-Morocco border.

Echorouk was the only newspaper from the private sector, which managed to enter this base accompanied by the commander of the National Gendarmerie, the Maj. Gen. Mennad Nouba, during the inspection of the Air Squadron of the National Gendarmerie, that is located within the military air base of Mecheria, which is available on helicopters of the type “ECUREUIL AS355n”, which is equipped with surveillance cameras system, which guarantees instant air coverage, and is equipped with the latest technology which is the digital transmission system that ensures security coverage for all the region, as it is also available on the search index that is supported by infrared and the digital mapping and three-screen systems, and voice network that can be connected by radio of gendarmerie, and can also fly at night thanks to the night binoculars, which helps the pilots of the squadron to carry out their duties during this period easily.

This move came as part of of the closure of the ports against terrorism and smugglers, making it possible to reduce the activity of smugglers to the outside through the crossings and secret ports of the western border, which led to the smuggling of tons of food, medicines, copper, leather, weapons and fuel, as they annually smuggle more than $ 3000 billion centimes, as told by security sources to Echorouk.

Over 67 Tonnes Of Moroccan Drugs Were Seized In 2016

Drugs mafia were forced to change routes, which are accustomed to use in smuggling drugs, because the national gendarmerie, armed forces and other security services tighten control on those gangs in the western regions of the country, and even at the level of the highway, through the intensification of security checkpoints and patrols, forcing them to change ways and use the isolated areas and roads to escape from the security control, but the Air Squadron of the National Gendarmerie managed to identify all the movements of smugglers, through the intensification of daily air control, making the barons of smuggling, which are active in all areas, lose billions of dinars.

Elements of the border guards raised the monitoring of the border, west of the country, especially in the wild tracts that are used as a favorite haven for the cells of smuggling drugs and fuel between Algeria and Morocco, through the use of Air Force reconnaissance aircraft to monitor smugglers movement, strengthening the engineering facility through expanding dig trenches along the 170 km, in the control procedures dthat was not noticed in the border region since the date of the closure of the land border between the two countries.

In terms of numbers, as revealed by the commanders of the second regional gendarmerie in Oran (western Algeria), its units seized in 2016 more than 67 tons of drugs that came from Morocco.