French Man Tries To Introduce 15.000 Hallucinogens Eastern Algeria

Skikda preliminary court’s investigating judge (eastern Algeria), sentenced on Monday a French national, 51, in temporary detention, on suspicion of dissociative drugs’ trafficking and attempting to introduce hallucinogens into the national territory without a licence.

The French accused was brought before justice after he was arrested by the border police officers who operate at the level of the Port Authority in Skikda (eastern Algeria), in coordination with the customs’ inspectorates of the same port institution.

In a press conference on this process, the same services stated that following the routine inspection and monitoring of travellers and their luggage, on the occasion of a regular journey on board the vessel Tassili that was coming from the port of Marseilles towards the port of Skikda, a French national was monitored on board a Laguna car and he showed confusion, then he was arrested for investigation, after the use of the scanner by the Cinotechnical team, security services found a large number of psychotropics and hallucinogens that belong to the accused, which are nearly 15.000 thousand tablets of hallucinogens of different types and sizes.

The accused was arrested and a security record was prepared against him. It was found that the accused had partners from various provinces within the national territory, and investigations are still ongoing to find them, as the value of the seized drugs exceeded DZD 1 billion.