Two African Nationals Arrested in Morocco for Kidnapping Farm Guard

The two Sub-Saharans are accused of forming a criminal gang, abduction and sequestration. The kidnapped guard is a Senegalese national who worked as a guard on a farm belonging to a former police prefect, reports the daily Al Akhbar.

After being presented to the investigating judge, they were placed in pre-trial detention. According to the complaint received earlier by the elements, the former police prefect indicated that the guard working on his farm had been kidnapped and held hostage by unknown individuals who were demanding a sum of 35,000 dirhams.

Even worse, the two accused held the guard captive for three days, in an apartment where they allegedly tortured him and forced him to contact his employer and his brothers residing in Italy and Libya to ask them to pay the ransom. During their interrogation, the two kidnappers did not deny the facts but rejected the acts of torture.

For them, the injuries on the guard’s body were due to his fall down the stairs when he had tried to flee. They specified that the amount claimed as ransom is a sum received by the latter to help the Guinean immigrate to Spain. The latter had allegedly assured him that he knew influential people who could help him go to Spain. But the guard flatly rejected all these accusations. For him, the two accused are trying to justify their act with facts that never existed.