Spanish police arrested Mohamed Ouazzani, a Moroccan national also known as "El Nene" ("The Baby") in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in northern Morocco, as he was driving around the city centre .
Police caught one of the world's major drug traffickers in a Spanish enclave in north Africa, police said , after guards helped him escape a Moroccan prison in December. "This is extraordinary news," Khalid Naciri, a Moroccan government spokesperson, said. Rabat had been mounting pressure on Spain to extradite him, a security source said. In December 2007, Ahmed escaped Kenitra high-security prison 40 kilometres (around 25 miles) north of the capital Rabat, where he had been serving an-eight-year prison term since 2004, for drug trafficking.
Until his escape, the suspect was being detained in a comfortable three-room cell equipped with a television, air conditioning and Internet. He would regularly go out to nearby bars and restaurants. Notorious in Morocco and Spain, "El Nene", was born in a poor Ceuta district and later joined gangs. He acquired an estimated 30 million-euro (around 47 million-dollar) fortune from drug dealing, a Spanish police press statement said.
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