Moroccan Police Chief Promotes Officer Stabbed on Duty in Agadir

The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) indicates in a press release that Abdellatif Hammouchi has expressly requested the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Social Works of National Security Officials and the services of the Agadir Police Prefecture to cover all the medical care and hospitalization costs of the violently assaulted police officer, and to support him by all the material means necessary for his medical and social well-being.

The sergeant was injured on Saturday evening by an individual who surprised him from behind by stabbing him several times with a blunt iron object in the back and thigh. After transferring the injured person to the hospital for the necessary care, the research and investigations carried out made it possible to arrest the suspect and submit him to a judicial investigation conducted under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office.