Arrest of Ghazi Mrabet: What is known about the case
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- Tunisia’s judicial authorities authorized the detention of lawyer Ghazi Mrabet and a wanted drug trafficker.
- The case concerns alleged drug-trafficking offenses, and the trafficker had received a 40-year prison sentence.
The prosecutor at Tunisia’s Court of First Instance authorized the judicial police’s anti-narcotics subdirectorate to place lawyer Ghazi Mrabet in custody.
The same authorization covered a wanted drug trafficker who had been sentenced to 40 years in prison. The case involves facts linked to drug trafficking.
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Originally published by La Presse in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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