A group of traffickers of hard drugs was apprehended by the judicial police services of the wilaya of Algiers, announced Thursday, February 3, the DGSN in a press release.
According to the explanations of officer Ouelha Hadj Nacer, made to the media, the operation allowed the seizure of 1.5 kg of hard drugs including 780 grams of heroin, 670 grams of cocaine, and 80 grams of Cannabis.
This large-scale operation also made it possible to put an end to human trafficking in which this network made up of 14 people, including 4 Algerians and the 10 others of foreign nationality, aged between 20 and 24, was engaged, according to the judicial police officer.
Investigations revealed that the network was using the diversion to proceed with its trafficking. This is by having its members wear women’s clothes, carrying hard drugs that they swallow in the form of capsules. The process then consists of extracting these drug capsules and mixing them with pharmaceutical products to then market them on the market.
The capsule carriers were examined by the doctors of the CHU Mustapha who confirmed the existence of the capsules in the stomachs of these traffickers. In addition to the quantities of drugs, the services of the PJ of Algiers seized an amount of 86,000 DA and 100 euros, two passenger cars, and a number of mobile phones.
Trafficking in hard drugs is becoming worrying in Algeria. According to the National Office for the Fight against Drugs and Drug Addiction (ONLDT), more than 66 tonnes of cannabis resin were seized in Algeria during the first 11 months of 2021.
For hard drugs, the quantity of cocaine seized in Algeria recorded a “substantial” increase, going from 29,854.947 grams during the first 11 months of 2020 to 502,858.866 grams in the same period of 2021, i.e. an increase of 1584.34%, reveals the same results.
The quantity of heroin seized, on the other hand, fell by 21.74%, dropping from 2,371.518 grams to 1,855.982 grams during the same reference period.
