MADRID: Spanish police have dismantled a large indoor marijuana-growing operation with the arrest of six Dutch nationals, including a couple and their son, and the seizure of 3,400 marijuana plants, the interior ministry said yesterday.
Police found the marijuana plants as well as 300 hallucinogenic mushrooms in three homes in the southern province of Malaga, the ministry said in a statement.
“The facilities that housed the plantations were of high quality and were equipped with a special growing system that allowed for continuos cropping,” it said.
“During the operation six Dutch nationals were detained — four men and two women — between the ages of 25 and 58. Among those arrested were a married couple, their son and daughter-in-law,” it added.
Police suspect the ring grew the drugs in Spain and then shipped the narcotics to the Netherlands where they were sold.
Senegal president fires prime minister
DAKAR: Senegal’s President Macky Sall fired Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye yesterday just over a year after naming the former banker to head the government, an official said.
Presidential spokesman Abou Abel Thiam did not say why Mbaye, who was not a member of any political party, was sacked but said a replacement and new government would be named soon.
Mbaye, 60, was appointed in April 2012. He studied in Senegal and France’s top business schools and previously worked at West Africa’s BCEAO central bank.
Sall won a hotly contested presidential election in March 2012 against veteran incumbent Abdoulaye Wade.
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