AFP: Morocco alarmed over rise in cocaine smuggling: "Morocco is alarmed by the rise in the amount of cocaine being smuggled from South America to Europe though its territory, Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri said Wednesday in Spain.
'Today it is not soft drugs that are being trafficked between Africa and Europe. Today we are extremely worried by this flow of hard drugs like cocaine which come essentially from South America,' he told a news conference.
International drug trafficking gangs ship the cocaine from South America by air or sea first to West Africa from where it is then transported to Morocco, the minister said. It is then flown from Morocco to Spain.
'There are planes which regularly come to take cocaine from Morocco and take it to southern Europe, especially Spain,' Fihri told a joint news conference in Madrid with his Spanish counterpart Trinidad Jimenez."
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