Moroccan Police Refute Viral Videos Claiming to Show Coronavirus Victims

The intention of those who publish these images and videos is to make people believe that they are those of presumed victims of the new coronavirus, in order to sow even more psychosis within the population.

In order to inform the public and to dispel the fears and apprehensions that may result from the publication of these videos and images, the DGSN indicates, in a press release, that the technical analyses and field investigations have clearly shown that "the unconscious person on the public road, near a grocer, was a victim of an epileptic seizure that occurred on March 16 in Tetouan, while the unconscious woman, near a gas station, suffered from an asthma attack and received the necessary first aid at the hospital in the same city". Several other images and videos have circulated and are in reality only isolated cases, which have nothing to do with coronavirus contamination.

The DGSN stresses that the civil protection services and specialized medical services have confirmed that no "medical intervention has been recorded on site to rescue people suffering from any illness".

Given the damage caused by these images, preliminary investigations have been opened "in order to identify and arrest all those whose responsibility is proven in the manufacture of false videos pretending to be contaminated by the coronavirus, or in the dissemination and sharing of manufactured videos to compromise the security of the population".