Dangerous ’Tricycle Rapist’ Arrested in Casablanca After 10-Month Manhunt

Nicknamed the rapist on the tricycle, the man is known for his aggressiveness towards women. According to the daily Assabah, he had been the subject of a nationwide wanted notice for over ten months for having kidnapped, sequestered and raped two women in an abandoned house in Daroua. He had targeted the two victims (waitresses by profession) whom he harassed, offering them money in exchange for sexual favors. After several refusals, he decided to act.

One evening, as one of the waitresses was returning from work, he forced her to get into his tricycle and took her to an isolated area, an abandoned house in the Daroua region where he raped her before releasing her. The next day, he attacked the second waitress with the same modus operandi, before disappearing into thin air. But his run came to an end last Wednesday, thanks to the investigations carried out by the police to put him out of harm’s way.

It must be said that the accused had thwarted many strategies devised by the police to arrest him, before the latter succeeded in surrounding him on the roof of a hammam adjoining his family’s home. According to the daily Assabah, the investigators received information that allowed them to trap him in order to proceed with his arrest.