Head of drug web gets death sentence

Originally published February 11, 2000

The Casablanca court of appeal on Friday sentenced the head of a drug trafficking web to capital punishment.The man, alias Ould Massouda, was found guilty of premeditated murder, torture, use of arms, drug trafficking at homer and at the international scale, kidnapping and forgery.

Other members of the web were sentenced to terms varying between 10 years and life jail.

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