Moroccan Lawyers File Complaint Against beIN Sports Journalist for Alleged Insults

Legal troubles ahead for Hafid Derradji? The Moroccan Lawyers’ Club filed a complaint on Saturday, January 22 with the Attorney General of Qatar against the Algerian journalist from the beIN Sports channel, after the insults against Morocco and Moroccan women.

On Thursday, a Moroccan internet user is said to have sent the Algerian commentator a message a few minutes after Algeria’s heavy defeat against Côte d’Ivoire (3-1). "It’s not serious, it’s a Moroccan-Sonist plot," she wrote to him. A message that would have provoked the anger of Hafid Derradji. "The whole world knows that you are sons of bitches. Who says Moroccan, says whore and who says Moroccan says son of a bitch. The latest figures show that half of the Moroccan women are of unknown parents," the Algerian sports commentator would have replied, before blocking the Moroccan internet user.

In a tweet, the Algerian journalist explained that he was not the author of these insulting and hateful remarks. "Thank you to the Twitter management, who closed the fake account that fabricated a message distributed by sedition merchants and electronic flies [...] who exploit it for blatant purposes. And to all the other followers who made the truth triumph by exposing the fabrication of fake messages by reporting it to Twitter, I say from the bottom of my heart, thank you," tweeted Hafid Derradji. Explanations that are not enough to convince the Moroccans.