He was arrested outside a Parisian restaurant. An important member of the criminal organization of Moroccan origin Mocro Maffia based in the Netherlands was arrested on Tuesday, October 8, the gendarmerie learned, confirming information from the Parisian.
The man, a 35-year-old Moroccan national, 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 gendarmerie unit that supported investigators from the Paris investigation section, the gendarmerie added. The arrest warrant was issued in late August.
Acts of torture and barbarism
It was three in the afternoon when Said A. was arrested leaving a restaurant on the 18th.my district of Paris, without incident, stated the same source.
Considered by investigators to be one of the main targets of the Mocro Maffia, he was wanted in particular for drug trafficking and production of synthetic drugs. He is suspected in Spain of kidnapping, acts of torture and barbarism, according to a source close to the case.
He will be presented before a magistrate who will notify him, according to the same source, of his extradition to the Netherlands, in accordance with the European arrest warrant. 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 settling of scores.
