Moroccan Police Debunk Viral Kidnapping Claim in Casablanca

In a statement, the DGSN indicates that its services became aware of a post published on Facebook reporting the kidnapping of a girl named Maroua in Casablanca, accompanied by the telephone number of the mother of the alleged victim. In response to this notice, the Casablanca police prefecture examined all the complaints and statements made to its services and it turned out that no kidnapping or search notice had been recorded by the family of a minor corresponding to the identity revealed in the Facebook post or to any other name, specifies the DGSN.

Concerned to ensure the veracity of this fact, the judicial police of the Anfa district contacted the number displayed in the publication, the same source continues, stressing that the owner of the number assured that she had not published any kidnapping notice and had not filed any complaint in this sense with the police services.

She also stated that she was indeed taking care of a three-year-old child whose mother had traveled to a Gulf country pending the completion of the legal procedures for kafala (adoption). Except that she was surprised during the month of August by a visit from the biological mother who took the child in her absence.

The woman later received a message via the Whatsapp application from a person presenting himself as the presumed father of the child, in which he claims to have initiated the procedures for establishing and recognizing paternity in order to be able to live with the child and his biological mother, adds the same source.

For now, the judicial police of Casablanca are continuing their investigations to determine the ins and outs of this case.