Fiancé of French Lawyer Arrested in Casablanca Rape Case Investigation

Mohamed Amine Naguib, the fiancé of the French lawyer who accuses three men of raping her in Casablanca, is no longer free to move around. He was arrested by the police upon his return from Paris after a short vacation there, reports Hespress. As a result, this CGEM executive could not go to his workplace on Thursday after a two-day leave.

The arrest of Mohamed Amine Naguib follows the disclosure of an audio recording with one of his friends. In it, he recounts the details of his appearance before the investigating judge of the Casablanca Court of Appeal, and the circumstances of his withdrawal of the complaint he had filed against the accused - sons of wealthy businessmen - who are currently in detention. A pure violation of the secrecy of the investigation. In the same audio recording, the person concerned, also prosecuted at large on other counts in the context of this alleged rape case, is heard insulting and insulting the lawyer of one of the accused. The recording also includes an attack on the work of the public prosecutor’s office and the investigating justice in the exercise of its functions, in accordance with the legal procedures in force.

The investigating judge at the Casablanca Court of Appeal had refused the defense’s request for Kamil B., the main accused in this case. The defense had presented a list of witnesses who denied the rape, one of whom confirmed that the French plaintiff had voluntarily had sexual relations in front of her during the night of the party in the luxurious villa of the accused in Ain Diab. The defense explained that the alleged victim did not provide any evidence that she had been raped, apart from the medical tests she had personally carried out and which confirmed that she had had sexual intercourse and consumed cocaine.

The sons of wealthy businessmen involved in this case are accused in particular of forming a criminal gang, rape, kidnapping and sequestration.