Police find drug trafficking tunnel connecting Morocco and Spanish forest areas
MADRID (AP) – Spanish authorities announced on Wednesday that a suspected drug smuggling tunnel was found, linking Morocco to the Spanish forested areas of North Africa.
The tunnel found in the operation against marijuana trafficking was equipped with basic lighting and measures 12 meters (39 feet), police said. It is located in searches in warehouses in the small territorial industrial zone of Spain.
Spain's Elpes newspaper reported that the tunnel extends 50 meters in the area of Spain, and the entrance of the tunnel was found in a former marble factory that was closed in 2020. The passage was covered by a trap door and reported that it entered the tunnel.
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The narrow tunnel “would have been used to transport drugs to the border between Morocco and Spain,” the civil guard said in a statement.
Police said it has been detained in recent weeks, including two civilian officers, as part of a wider crackdown on drugs, during which more than 6,000 kilograms (6.6 tons) of marijuana were caught hidden in trucks.
North Africa, another small enclave in Spain, Ceuta and Melilla, form the only land border between Europe and Africa. Earlier this year, Spain and Morocco opened customs in Ceuta and Melilla to allow the transfer of goods between the two countries on the land border.
