Casablanca Police Officers Detained in Falsified Reports Scandal

The court of first instance in Casablanca released the three individuals, following a requisition by the public prosecutor’s office, reports the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia. A fourth individual was kept in custody. The justice system, after investigation, discovered that the police reports on the basis of which these individuals were arrested had been falsified.

The court made this decision after the circulation on social networks of a video in which a citizen accused the police elements of having violated her home and taken away a large sum of money belonging to her husband, who would then have been arrested by the latter.

In response to these accusations, the DGSN’s reaction did not wait. In a press release, Abdellatif Hammouchi indicated that the two police officers in question (a judicial police officer and his deputy) were referred on Saturday to the public prosecutor’s office near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, after being questioned by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ), in the presence of their lawyer. They are accused of forgery and use of forgery on official documents, theft and violation of the inviolability of the home and presumed misappropriation of private funds made available to a public official in the exercise of his duties.

The accused were placed in pre-trial detention, pending the completion of the investigation opened by the public prosecutor’s office to determine the ins and outs of this case.