French Actor and Influencer Await Bail Decision in Moroccan Video Controversy Case

The Franco-Algerian actor Brahim Bouhlel and the Franco-Moroccan influencer Zbarbooking, incarcerated in Marrakech after their conviction on April 21, 2021, will be informed this Wednesday of their request for release on bail. Their appeal trial is scheduled for the next two weeks.

"This video, in the understanding that is made of it at first instance, is contrary to everything that he [Brahim Boulhel, Ed.] is. [...] There is a gap between a bad delusion and a threat to the physical integrity of people," explained on April 22, the lawyer of Brahim Bouhlel, Me Charles Morel, in the TPMP show on C8. These remarks were quoted by Le Parisien in an article entitled "Imprisoned in Morocco for a joke".

And to add: "I would like all those who judge, who condemn, to examine their conscience or make an effort of memory, on what they were doing, themselves, at 24, 25 years old, among friends, after having had a drink, this kind of delirious buffoonery. The only thing is that it was filmed and disseminated. The comic intention was there, it failed. They are permanently traumatized".