Moroccan Imam Sentenced to 10 Years for Sexual Abuse and Blackmail

The judge who pronounced the sentence confirmed the judgment rendered in the first instance, while maintaining all the charges against him. An announcement that did not fail to arouse anger and indignation among the defense of the accused.

The case had come to light in December 2018, during a search of his home by the police. Sexually explicit videos, testifying to his many abuses, had been found on his computer. They had then been published on adult websites.

A "serial rapist", the forty-year-old was posing as an imam expert in "Roqia Charia" (exorcism). He would invite his victims to come and be exorcised at his home, before forcing them to have sexual intercourse. One of his "patients" had testified openly.