Fugitive Murder Suspect Arrested After Two Years on the Run, Thanks to WhatsApp Tip

He had fled just after the murder two years ago. Since then, he had been actively sought by the police. An informant recently provided useful information to the elements of the judicial police on the alleged criminal. He was residing in a city in the south where he worked in crafts, reports Assabah. The alleged criminal was rarely seen in Salé. The judicial police brigade of Bettana-Tabriquet was on his trail. A trap was set for him.

The strategy was to contact him via the instant messaging application WhatsApp. At the controls, a policeman. He presented himself as a woman. Exchange of messages, then a meeting set in an area on the road linking Kenitra to Salé. The informant went to the scene first, his car parked a few meters away on the track.

He approaches the wanted defendant to ask him to indicate to him where an grocer where he can buy a bottle of water. Immediately, the police arrive and arrest him. He was heard at the Salé police station before being brought before the public prosecutor at the Rabat Court of Appeal on Monday.