The arrest of the man, a 35-year-old Dutchman, took place outside a restaurant on Tuesday October 8 in Paris.
An important member of the criminal organization of Moroccan origin Mocro Maffia was arrested Tuesday in Paris leaving a restaurant, AFP learned from the gendarmerie, confirming information from Le Parisien.
The man, of Moroccan nationality, aged 35 according to a source close to the case, was subject to a European arrest warrant issued by the Netherlands.
He was arrested by the GIGN, the elite gendarme unit, which supported investigators from the Paris research section, added the gendarmerie.
An arrest warrant was issued at the end of August against the suspect. Tuesday, October 8, it was 3 p.m. when Saïd A. was arrested leaving a restaurant in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, without incident, the same source said.
Towards a transfer to the Netherlands?
Considered by investigators as one of the main targets within the Mocro Maffia, he was wanted in particular for drug trafficking and production of synthetic drugs.
He will be presented on Thursday to a magistrate, who will give him “knowledge of the content of the European arrest warrant”, indicated the general prosecutor’s office of the Paris Court of Appeal, requested by AFP.
The general public prosecutor’s office “will assess, at this stage, the opportunity to refer the matter to a delegated magistrate for the purposes of placement in custody”. In other words, whether the suspect should be placed in pre-trial detention or not.
Then, the suspect will be summoned before the investigating chamber, where the “question of consent” to be handed over to the Netherlands will be raised. The “surrender deadlines vary depending on the consent”, underlined the general prosecutor’s office.
The Mocro Maffia is a criminal organization of Moroccan origin based in the Netherlands, whose main activity, cocaine trafficking, is accompanied by arms trafficking and bloody score-settling.
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