Trial of Moufide Bouchibi, “the king of hash”: judgment pending this Thursday

End of reign for “the king of hash”? The Bordeaux Criminal Court (Gironde) is deliberating this Thursday, September 9, its judgment concerning Moufide Bouchibi, considered to be one of the biggest drug traffickers to Europe and France.

Arrested last March in Dubai, he has long been tracked down by authorities in many countries. The scale of its trafficking, some figures for which suggest the import of 60 tonnes of narcotics into Europe each year and up to 70 million euros in profit, was at the heart of the trial.

The Bordeaux court, however, does not judge the entire “career” of the trafficker, but the establishment of many go fast during the year 2011. The prosecution has retained half a dozen in total. The deputy prosecutor thus sought to demonstrate that Moufide Bouchibi “had the logistical capacity to send different convoys simultaneously on different routes, with astronomical quantities of cannabis resin”. In November 2011, one of the go fast had for example been arrested with 743 kilos of this drug, however, not preventing another convoy from reaching its goal with more than a ton of merchandise.

ALREADY CONDEMNED SEVERAL TIMES

The accusations were largely based on telephone interceptions, which made it possible to designate the Franco-Algerian as the one who directed the traffic. The latter disputes, pointing out that a single investigator identified him via the wiretaps.

The deputy prosecutor requested eighteen years in prison, with a two-thirds safety period. Continued detention, owing to the “risk of flight abroad” and the “resources at his disposal”, was also requested. All with a fine of one million euros claimed.

In 2015, Moufide Bouchibi had already been sentenced, while he was on the run abroad, to twenty years in prison. He was in a state of recidivism, after a previous sentence received in 2004 (eight years in prison).

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