Moroccan Entrepreneurs Face Death Threats in Southern Regions, Police Launch Investigation

These business leaders would have received death and arson threats against their companies in Dakhla, Boujdour and Laâyoune, according to authorized sources at Assabah, adding that some of them who filed a complaint have confirmed to the BNPJ in Casablanca have been assaulted and intimidated by individuals to leave the region. According to audio recordings provided to investigators by one of the complainants, these individuals would have hatched a plan to poison investors in order to sow terror in the region.

The Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca ordered the opening of an investigation to shed light on this case within a period of eight days. A businessman with several companies in Casablanca, Agadir and Dakhla, explains in his complaint to have received recurring death threats that he had ignored, until the day when audio messages sent via WhatsApp to his son, confirmed these threats.

In these audios, the alleged sponsor proposes the sum of 400,000 dirhams to commit this crime. The "hitman", for his part, demanded an additional 150,000 dirhams to cover the "costs of the physical liquidation". These threats forced him to leave the region without drawing attention, specifies the complainant who assures that these individuals, originally from the southern provinces, are known to the judicial and police services.