Moroccan Court Sentences Two Gendarmes to Prison for Falsifying Documents

Tried for having committed violations related to procedures and the falsification of a set of documents, including the falsification of official reports, the head of the royal gendarmerie center of Skoura and his colleague each received a sentence of four years’ imprisonment. The third accused in this case, a corporal gendarme from the same center, was acquitted.

Last November, the Attorney General of the King at the Court of Appeal of Ouarzazate had instructed to deepen the investigation against the three gendarmes accused of having committed violations related to procedures and the falsification of a set of documents, including the falsification of official reports. The investigations conducted by the public prosecutor’s office and the National Brigade of the Royal Gendarmerie during this investigation proved fruitful.

The investigating judge ordered their placement in pre-trial detention in the local prison of Ouarzazate to deepen the investigation for forgery of an official document. Thus, the three gendarmes were prosecuted under arrest.