{"id":372932,"date":"2025-08-25T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372932\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:12:11","slug":"moroccan-driver-arrested-in-france-with-record-cannabis-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372932\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan driver arrested in France with record cannabis haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, French authorities apprehended a Moroccan driver in Lorraine after discovering 253 kilograms of cannabis resin in a utility truck registered in Spain. The 43-year-old, who holds a Spanish residence permit, was presented before the judicial court in Nancy on Friday. The court has ordered his detention until his trial, which is scheduled for October 1st.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, French media outlets reported that the arrest occurred last Wednesday on the A31 highway during a checkpoint at the Loisy rest area in Meurthe-et-Moselle. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/france3-regions.franceinfo.fr\/grand-est\/meurthe-et-moselle\/nancy\/saisie-record-de-cannabis-sur-l-autoroute-la-drogue-etait-dissimulee-dans-des-emballages-censes-contenir-des-fruits-3205484.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France 3 Regions<\/a>, customs officers found the drugs concealed in 40-kilogram bundles, cleverly hidden within fruit packaging.<\/p>\n<p>The driver reportedly claimed ignorance of the illegal cargo. According to these sources, the operation led to what is described as \u00abone of the largest drug seizures of the year\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, French authorities apprehended a Moroccan driver in Lorraine after discovering 253 kilograms of cannabis resin in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-372932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115090761125770348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}