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Police in Tangier arrested a 26-year-old German national on Wednesday after authorities confirmed he was the subject of an international arrest warrant and an Interpol Red Notice issued at the request of German judicial authorities.
The suspect is wanted in connection with kidnapping, unlawful detention, extortion, and violence involving dangerous substances. The offenses were committed on German territory in 2021, according to the information contained in the Red Notice.
The arrest followed direct coordination and intelligence-sharing between Morocco’s General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) and Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Preliminary investigations revealed the suspect had entered Morocco using forged German travel documents and identity papers bearing another person’s name.
Authorities placed the suspect under police custody on orders from the competent public prosecutor. A judicial investigation is underway to determine the full circumstances surrounding his use of fraudulent documents and identity theft. The Interpol National Central Bureau in Rabat has notified its German counterpart of the arrest, pending formal extradition procedures.
The operation marks the latest in a steady succession of Interpol-linked arrests carried out by Moroccan security services in 2026. In February, officers in Tangier apprehended a 34-year-old French national listed under a Red Notice for his suspected involvement in a cross-border drug trafficking network.
That same month, police in Martil detained a 54-year-old Dutch national wanted for defrauding 135 investors of approximately €5.8 million. In late March, a 27-year-old Swedish fugitive sought for international drug trafficking was arrested at Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport.
In April, Marrakech police arrested a French national of Lebanese origin flagged by Interpol in a €640,000 fraud case. Moroccan forces also detained Israeli national Avi Golan, one of the most notorious cross-border fraudsters wanted by Interpol, in a nighttime raid on a luxury villa where he had been living under a false identity.
Morocco’s institutional standing within Interpol has grown in parallel. The country hosted the 93rd Interpol General Assembly in Marrakech, where Prefect Mohammed Dkhissi was elected vice-president of the organization for Africa.
Morocco also participated in Operation Ramz, the first large-scale Interpol cybercrime operation coordinated across the Middle East and North Africa, which resulted in 201 arrests and the identification of 382 suspects.
In May, Marrakech hosted the Cyber Games and Digital Security Challenge, organized in partnership with Interpol and the Council of Europe, bringing together specialists from 50 countries.
The German suspect’s arrest indicates Morocco’s expanding enforcement capacity in transnational crime cases and its deepening integration into the global policing architecture.
Source: Morocco word news
