Tunisian, Swiss Girls Lead A Cell For Exporting Drugs Towards Europe

Algiers Criminal Court postponed, on Monday, the consideration of a dangerous criminal file that is related to the criminal activity of an international and intercontinental cell, which became professional in exporting, importing and transfer of Moroccan drugs, through the axis of Algerian Meghnia region, France and Spain through shipping, as the trial of nine defendants out of 14 will be during the next session, including two women, one of them is French of Tunisian origin and the other woman is Swiss.

Investigations that were carried out by the security services revealed on their involvement within the criminal cell, which mastermind recruited people from various foreign nationalities and of both sexes in exchange for money, as the international letters rogatory that was issued by the French police indicate that those operations are related to a group that is active in “Orlean operates under its guidance, and they were sentence to jail between 5 and 10 years.

According to the file, Customs services arrested, at the port of Algiers, two cars where a Tunisian girl and her friend were traveling toward the Spanish city of Alicante, and after inspection they found 250 kg of drugs inside the car, and decided to put them at the disposal of the judicial police for the follow-up on the felony of trying to export drugs illegally, and exporting prohibited goods and drugs trafficking, and belonging to an transcontinental criminal group and participate in, then the two accused admitted, during the investigation, that they are aware of the presence of drugs.

One of the girls revealed that she has a relationship with people in France, who proposed the work in the field of drugs in exchange for 5,000 euros, and the registration of the car that was used in exporting drugs in her name, and added during the hearing that they asked her to accompany her friend, which is the second accused for 1500 euros. 

Security investigations continued leading to the arrest of another person who was on board a third car at the port, and who was preparing to enter, before receiving orders to retreat towards the city of Oran, during the arrest of the two girls, as investigations showed that the used cars were all carrying the blue color and with a mark that is well-known in Algeria that was used so that criminal groups could identify the traffickers.