Moroccan Expat Appeals Life Sentence in Salé Family Massacre Case

The accused will have to wait longer. During the hearing on May 7, the Second Degree Criminal Chamber at the Rabat Court of Appeal decided to postpone the appeal examination of the horrific massacre of six members of the same family, perpetrated in February 2021 in Salé, reports Al Akhbar. While voice recordings from his mobile phone, in which he utters death threats against the victims, including a woman, a child, and an infant, incriminate him, the man rejects any premeditation. He invokes a state of intoxication.

"I don’t know what I’m saying when I drink alcohol," he declared. However, technical expertise confirms the authenticity of the recordings. At the origin of the crime were family tensions over real estate and agricultural land near Mechra Bel Ksiri. But the man who worked in the gas sector in Spain insists he was abroad at the time of the events. These claims are denied by Spanish authorities. They actually arrested him in May 2021 and extradited him to Morocco after a year of detention in Spain.