Moroccan Police Refute Kidnapping Claims in Case of Missing 12-Year-Old Girl

In a statement, the DGSN denies the kidnapping, sequestration and ransom demand track and talks about a diversion of this 12-year-old girl. "The services of the Casablanca police prefecture received, on Saturday, a notice concerning the suspicious disappearance of a 12-year-old minor, whose family favored the kidnapping track after receiving SMS demanding a ransom, which required the opening of a judicial investigation by the national brigade of the judicial police under the supervision of the competent prosecutor’s office," it is explained.

For the police, the young girl "voluntarily left her home in the company of one of her friends of legal age, to go stay with her in Settat, and that it is she who sent the SMS claiming the kidnapping".

The investigation continues to determine the exact circumstances of this case, the press release also announces the placement in custody of this friend for "diversion of a minor".