Appeal Trial Begins for 2017 Marrakech Café Shooting Suspects

13 November 2019 – bySylvanus@Bladi · 1 min read

The appeal trial of the defendants in the case of the shooting at the Café La Crème in Marrakech is due to begin tomorrow. This is the decision of the criminal chamber of the Marrakech Court of Appeal.

The court of first instance in Marrakech had tried 19 people involved in the contract killing of the "La Crème" café on November 2, 2017, recalls the newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghribia. Among these people, 13 were prosecuted while in custody. Some had been sentenced to 2 months in prison with probation, and others to 20 years in prison.

Two Dutch nationals, one originally from the Dominican Republic and the other from Suriname, are the main defendants in this shooting that targeted the owner of the "La Crème" café. They were sentenced to death. By mistaking the target, they had coldly murdered a young doctor, an intern at the Marrakech University Hospital. The toll is one dead and two injured.

The café owner, for his part, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Category: Morocco

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Marrakesh Rights and Justice Trial Prison Criminality