Tangier
Hell in Tangier
In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.
- Year: 2006
- Country: Belgium
- Genre: Thriller, Drama
- Studio: Skyline Entertainment
- Keyword: drug smuggling, tangier morocco, bus driver, 1990s, prisoner abuse, innocent in jail, wrongly condemned
- Director: Frank van Mechelen
- Cast: Filip Peeters, Peter Gorissen, Veerle de Jonghe, Warre Borgmans, Els Olaerts, Peter Bolhuis
