Moroccan Melilla MPs Arrested for Sheep Trafficking

While I was watching another episode of a show that I like, “Queen of the South,” about drug trafficking and the cartel at night here in Los Angeles and it was morning time in Morocco, a Moroccan reporter sent me a link to an article that he published about trafficking, as if he knew I was watching this show.

For a second, I thought that there was a new popular show on drug trafficking I should be aware of, a popular topic in Morocco, especially when it comes to Moroccan Hashish, but it was not! It wasn’t about drugs or hashish. It was about sheep trafficking, as usual, our Drama is so cheap.

 Former president of Melilla, Mustafa Aberchan, was arrested for smuggling 11 sheep from Morocco. What a new scandalous headline in Spanish media where we, Moroccans, unfortunately, have a horrible reputation?!

 Three of Aberchan’s advisors: Hassan Mohatar, Rachid Bussian, and Ahmed Mohamed, along with the former president of Melilla, who ignored the health requirements required by the Spanish authorities to allow animals into the Spanish enclave, chained themselves in protest around the van that transported the sheep from Morocco to Melilla.

Creating chaos, the prosecution demanded that they be found guilty of serious resistance against the authorities.

 Some of them are already known to the police. Hassan Mohatar had been accused of giving a grant to his deputy adviser. At the same time, Ahmed Mohamed is being prosecuted for setting up a center for unaccompanied minors during a state of a health emergency.

 For Aberchán, former president of the city, the situation has worsened since he has already received convictions, to which is added the latter. The prosecution currently requires a year in prison but also his resignation.

 Another situation on Spanish soil mixed with Moroccan Drama that never stops.

By Simo Ben