
Moroccan Influencer Arrested for Instagram Video Criticizing Health Workers
The Moroccan blogger, Asmae Amrani, would have been arrested this Saturday, April 4, following her remarks made in a video against the medical staff of Moroccan hospitals.

The Moroccan blogger, Asmae Amrani, would have been arrested this Saturday, April 4, following her remarks made in a video against the medical staff of Moroccan hospitals.

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in the dissemination of digital content inciting hatred and insult. The operation was jointly carried out by the judicial police elements of the city of Zaïo and the central service for the fight against crimes related to new technologies.

A 36-year-old repeat offender, who was the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant, fell into the net of the police elements of the Sidi Bernoussi security district in Casablanca on Wednesday. He would be involved in cases of forgery and use of forgeries, fraud and violation of the state of health emergency.

Ex-convicts, who were posing as authority auxiliaries to raise awareness about coronavirus in the city of Salé , were arrested by the police. Recidivism, usurpation of function, violation of the state of health emergency for criminal purposes are the charges against them.

Drug traffickers are not resting. Despite the state of emergency, several tons of Moroccan cannabis have been seized in southern Spain in recent weeks.

The manager of a shisha bar in Casablanca was arrested on Tuesday, April 1st for violating the state of health emergency.

In this context of confinement and rapid spread of the coronavirus in France, the undocumented immigrants housed in the Administrative Detention Center (CRA) of Mesnil-Amelot, fear being contaminated. They should be repatriated to their countries of origin.

An individual with multiple criminal records has been apprehended. He was already the subject of 42 wanted notices for drug cases.

The elements of the prefectural judicial police service of Casablanca, in coordination with the central service for the fight against crimes related to new technologies, proceeded on Tuesday, March 31, to the arrest of a 35-year-old businessman working in a private company. He had wrongly accused a Jew of being responsible for the spread of the coronavirus.

The police commissioner of the security district in Rabat has been suspended for failing to implement the emergency health measures.

Elements of the judicial police brigade of Nador arrested on Tuesday an individual caught in flagrante delicto of possession of 3.8 kg of heroin.

A 46-year-old woman was arrested on Monday evening by the elements of the Agadir prefectural service. She would be involved in the recording and dissemination via social networks of a video sequence containing insulting and defamatory remarks against members of the Moroccan community residing abroad (MREs) and inciting hatred and discrimination.