Fez Official Refutes Claims Linking Suicide to COVID-19 Aid Denial

The deceased did not submit any request to benefit from the temporary support intended for households in the informal sector impacted by the coronavirus, specifies the Wali of the Fez-Meknes region.

Some websites have disseminated, in a "misleading" way, images of a supposed letter left by the individual concerned in which he specified that he had committed suicide because he had not benefited from the support granted to households impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, recalls the statement from the Wali of the region.

Alerted by the neighbors of the deceased, the local and security authorities went to the scene of the incident but did not find the existence of any letter, as relayed in the images shared on the web, the same source said.

Neither the person concerned nor any of his relatives had submitted a request stating his need for assistance, or to benefit from the temporary support for households in the informal sector impacted by the new coronavirus, the statement continued.

The competent authorities will be informed to open a judicial investigation, in order to determine the persons and parties who have conveyed these images by attributing them in a fraudulent manner to this suicide, concludes the same source.