Former Moroccan Health Official Sentenced for Failing to Assist Suicide Attempt Victim

This judgment did not take into account the charge of false identity. In addition to the conviction of the former Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, the young woman who had attempted suicide was sentenced to one month in prison with a suspended sentence and a fine of 500 dirhams for public drunkenness, reports Le360. The 53-year-old receptionist of the Tivoli hotel, who had registered Hicham Nejmi’s reservation under a false identity, was sentenced to two months in prison and a fine of 500 dirhams.

A 35-year-old woman had accidentally fallen out of a window on the 3rd floor of a hotel in Agadir on Friday, August 23, 2019. Hicham Nejmi, then Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, had told investigators that he was in a room next to the victim’s, and had tried to help her. However, he was suspected of having a relationship with the young woman who is the manager of a real estate rental agency. Subsequently, the former Minister of Health had suspended him.