MADRID –
Spanish police have arrested 30 people accused of robbing, kidnapping and
torturing drug traffickers, the Interior Ministry says.

Police
detained 21 Moroccans, eight Spaniards and one person from Senegal and are
investigating another five people, it said.

Those
detained are accused of fixing tracking devices to drugs sold to the traffickers
before they left Morocco en route to Spain, where members of the group, dressed
as security officials, confiscated the drugs.

The
suspects also kidnapped and tortured traffickers for information on other drugs
stashes, the ministry said, adding the drugs were then exchanged in France for
weapons and ammunition.

In raids
across Spain, more than two-and-a-half tonnes of hashish, 16 vehicles, more
than $88,000 in cash, six guns and mobile phones were confiscated, the ministry
said.

The operation was carried out by
the Spanish police in collaboration with Catalonian and Moroccan security
forces, the Interior Ministry said.

– Reuters