The 'Messi of hashish', escaped in Spain, among the dangerous criminals that Europol wants to stop with the collaboration of citizens

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Abdellah El Haj Sadek El Membri, known as

has joined the list of the most wanted dangerous fugitives in the EU.

His profile appears in the 'Most Wanted' campaign in the EU in 2022 that the European Network of Active Fugitive Search Teams (Enfast), supported by Europol, has launched to ask for citizen collaboration to try to arrest more than fifty "bosses" of organized crime groups, including five claimed by Spain, of which three are considered "dangerous".

One of them is the Moroccan Abdellah El Haj Sadek El Membri, 38, wanted "for being the alleged leader of an international organization dedicated to the trafficking of large quantities of illicit drugs and money laundering, as well as the possession of weapons of fire" and "currently" considered "the head of the largest hashish trafficking organizations in Spain", in the Campo de Gibraltar area.

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The party of the 'Hashish Messi', the twice fugitive that the 'friend' Morocco does not deliver to Spain

• Writing: ANDROS LOZANO

The party of the 'Hashish Messi', the twice fugitive that the 'friend' Morocco does not deliver to Spain

The campaign reports that his organization is

. "

"Once they hit the ground, they would normally load the drug into stolen vehicles, transport it to safe places to hide it until it was sold," he adds.

And he says that the fugitive "has a strong network of collaborators who directly carry out illicit activities, as well as a large number of contacts and subordinates who carry out all the operations within the drug production and distribution chain, from the moment he leaves the place of production, until its transport to any point in Europe".

"This individual has abundant funds, mainly from his illicit activities, and has an extensive network of personal and family ties that facilitate his concealment, both in Spain and in other countries."

The 'Messi of hashish'

when he published a letter announcing his intention to disappear for "a while" due to "the enormous police pressure" to which, he said, he was subjected in the Campo de Gibraltar and that he finds it "unbearable".

He hadn't appeared in court for at least two days, as he had to do every day.

That was one of the conditions, together with the payment of a bail of 80,000 euros, for which this Moroccan living in Campo de Gibraltar had been provisionally released, awaiting trial, after surrendering to the Spanish authorities in November of 2017.

His arrest occurred when, after spending time on the run in Morocco, he returned to Spain to surrender voluntarily, with a controversial pact with the Prosecutor's Office that allowed him to be released on bail pending trial.

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