Moroccan Man Arrested for Spreading False COVID-19 Information on Facebook

25 March 2020 – bySylvanus@Bladi · 1 min read

The judicial police of the Nador district security department proceeded, on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, to the arrest of a 29-year-old individual. He is suspected of having posted online through computer systems a video containing erroneous and fraudulent data on the new coronavirus (Covid-19).

According to the initial investigation data, the suspect, the administrator of a Facebook page, had broadcast an old video reporting the acts of vandalism that the city of Laâyoune experienced last July following a football match, indicates the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a press release.

The accused accompanied the video with false comments in which he claims that it is about disturbances related to the violation of the health emergency state in Tangier following the gathering recorded last Saturday in certain residential neighborhoods.

Pending clarification of the circumstances and the motive for these criminal acts, the defendant was placed in custody.

Category: Morocco

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