Newborn trafficking dismantled in Morocco, 30 people arrested. 18 security agents, a doctor, two nurses, health professionals as well as intermediaries.
Some of those arrested are suspected "of being intermediaries in the sale of newborns in complicity with single mothers" Others would be involved “in acts of blackmail to patients and their families in exchange for appointments for consultation, diagnosis or () visits, and for issuing medical certificates containing false data” This vast operation also allowed the seizure in the homes of certain suspects of “medicines issued only on prescription, medicines which cannot be sold, medical equipment and sums of money.