Last Tuesday, the Tangiers Court of Appeal issued its ruling in the “Cricket Villa” case, where the security services arrested a number of people, including people of Albanian nationality, during the quarantine period.
While the defendants deny the charges against them of forming a gang, drug trafficking, detention and torture, stressing that they were only drinking “shisha” in what is known as the “cricket villa”, before they were arrested and charged with serious charges.
The court ruled the conviction of the main accused Khaled A, and Cosmin Aon charges of possession, possession, transportation and export of drugs and international trafficking, with the charge of illegal residence in Morocco for the Albanian defendant, and ruled that each one of them be sentenced to 10 years.
The court decided Acquittal of the accused Muhammad Awhile condemned Karim AOn charges of producing, holding, possessing and transporting drugs and participating in international trafficking, a prison sentence was issued against him for 5 yearsAs for the accused Imad bHe was convicted of holding, possessing, producing, transporting and exporting drugs and international trafficking in them, and a prison sentence was issued against him for 7 years.
As for Mohammad RAnd a prison sentence was issued against him for 8 yearswhile Noureddine A, Younis A, Muhammad A, Teduriel Z, Alexander M, Abdel Hafeez A, Muhammad Awho were convicted on charges of participating in the seizure, possession, transportation and export of drugs and international trafficking in them, so they were sentenced to imprisonment for 7 years.
Accused Hakim AIt was decided to imprison him for a period of time two yearsAndDear K، Three yearsAs for Marzouk J, convicted of organizing and facilitating the secret exit of persons outside the national territory in Tangier, transportation and promotion of drugs, movement and possession of narcotic drugs and narcotic substances and exporting them without a license or permit, he was sentenced Imprisonment for 4 years.
while convicted Yahya Hin order to possess, transport and export drugs internationally and sentence him by five years Imprisonment and a fine, the accused Ali Awas convicted of international drug trafficking and drug export and sentenced to death by four yearsAs for Abdul Rahman AHe was sentenced to a term of imprisonment 5 years.
Questioning the records and evidence
During the trial session, the main defendant, Khaled A., said that he did not sign his report with the police and that the confessions recorded in him were not recognized, indicating that he was on vacation in Tangiers in the Boubana region, and that after a dinner with his relatives, he was surprised to be arrested with his relatives who They were spending the evening with him.
The accused said that in prison he was surprised every time by an increasing number of people who were linked to this case or accused of collaborating with them in order to smuggle and trade drugs.
The defense of a number of the defendants, on their part, considered that the evidence on which the case is relied upon is “not evidence,” especially with regard to finding pictures and recordings on the defendants’ phones, indicating that there is no technical evidence that they are the owners of these footage, even if it was fabricated or another party inserted it in their phones via messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Messenger.
The main accused offered 50 million to the Royal Gendarmerie
The representative of the Public Prosecution Office, in front of the defendants’ insistence on denial and the defense’s questioning of the evidence, indicated that phone calls had been received showing that the main accused had offered 50 million to the Royal Gendarmerie in Nador in order to release a person called “Fouad.”
Research, according to the same source, showed that “Fouad” is nothing but a drug-smuggling “Zodiac” driver who works with the main accused, “Khaled.”
Boubana villas turned into shisha cafes during the quarantine
Among what was revealed during the trial was the agreement of the defendants, who were arrested in the “cricket villa” or its surroundings, that they were there only for the sake of drinking shisha. The main defendant explained that the villas, during the quarantine period, turned into shisha cafes, and that a number of Some people rented it to receive their customers away from health emergency procedures.
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