LThe arrest of Saïd A., of Moroccan nationality and aged 35, was revealed on Wednesday by The Parisian and confirmed to AFP by the gendarmerie and sources close to the case.
It was 3:00 p.m. when the suspect was arrested leaving a restaurant in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, without incident, by the GIGN, the elite unit of the gendarmerie, which was in support of the investigating gendarmes from the police section. research from Paris. The European arrest warrant targeting him was issued at the end of August.
“The public prosecutor suspects him of being involved in the importation of methamphetamine into the Netherlands”, Brechtje van de Moosdijk, the spokesperson for the Dutch public prosecutor’s office interviewed by AFP, told AFP on Wednesday.
She said that in April, police discovered more than 100 kilos of methamphetamine in a car in a parking lot along the A58 near Gilze in the south of the Netherlands. Saïd A. was wanted as part of this investigation in which a 33-year-old man from Tilburg (south of the Netherlands) was already arrested in the parking lot along the highway.
It was on the basis of information that French investigators were able to locate Saïd A. in Paris. He is known, according to details from French investigators, as belonging to the Mocro Maffia and involved in drug trafficking and the production of synthetic drugs.
He is also suspected of kidnapping and acts of torture and barbarity in Spain, according to a source close to the case.
He will be presented to a magistrate on Thursday, who will give him “knowledge of the content of the European arrest warrant”, specified the general public prosecutor of the Paris Court of Appeal, requested by AFP.
The general prosecutor’s office “will assess, at this stage, the opportunity to refer the matter to a delegated magistrate for the purposes of placement in prison”. 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 delivered to the Netherlands. THE “delivery deadlines vary depending on consent”, underlined the general prosecutor’s office.
The Netherlands has asked France to hand over the suspect and expects this to be done.quite quickly”, since it is an EU country, explained for her part the spokesperson for the Dutch public 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.
In February, the Netherlands’ most feared drug lord, Moroccan-born Ridouan Taghi, considered the mastermind of the “Mocro Maffia,” was sentenced to life in prison by an Amsterdam court for a series of murders committed by his gang between 2015 and 2017, which shocked the country.
This organization is also suspected of being linked to the murder of a Dutch journalist shot several times in the head in July 2021 after a TV show. In September of that year, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands was placed under police protection after Mocro Maffia lookouts were seen around his home.
