Doctor Arrested in Morocco for Leading Illegal Abortion and Drug Trafficking Ring

According to the daily Assabah, it is a major crackdown that the judicial police brigade of Meknès has just carried out, by dismantling this vast network specialized in clandestine abortion. In addition to the members of this network, including a doctor, the police also arrested two sub-Saharans, as well as a woman who had recourse to clandestine abortion through this network. The chief doctor is the one who was in charge of the abortions in disregard of any regulatory and legal framework.

The daily emphasizes that the modus operandi of this network consists in identifying pregnant women who wish to have an abortion. They place them in a private clinic in the city of Meknès where contraband drugs and injections are administered to them in order to trigger the abortion. It was thus that last Thursday, just after having aborted a young woman, the doctor, as well as his accomplices, were arrested with more than 1,000 tablets of contraband drugs used in abortions.

In total, eight people were arrested and seven were placed in pre-trial detention pending the end of the investigation opened to determine all the ramifications of this network. The eighth person is a woman who had just had an abortion. She is being followed in a health center. The accused face prison sentences ranging from 1 to 5 years, and more if the justice decides to prosecute them for multiple abortions.