Moroccan Singer Latifa Raafat Vows Legal Action Over ’Desert Escobar’ Accusations

"I am a Moroccan citizen and I have the right to defend myself legally. Only the Moroccan justice system has the right to prosecute me after an investigation with the national brigade. That is why I swear, as I swore before the justice system and by Almighty God, that I will not forgive anyone who has overstepped their limits and taken the place of justice and the investigation, and criminalized me," the singer said in a post on her Instagram account, accompanied by a photo of the comments of the people she has decided to sue.

She expects these activists to tell her "what happened in her villa, because apparently they know the case better than (her), the investigation and the justice system." Confirming that all the "accused have testified that she had no connection to this case, and that what they did in her home at the time was due to the fact that the accused Haj Ahmed Ben Ibrahim was her husband and had the power to receive his guests and isolate himself with them in her home in her absence, since he was her legal husband," Latifa Raafat assures that she is a witness in this case and not an accused, and that she is not waiting for her acquittal.

Recently, she has tried to put an end to the rumors that she has fled abroad to escape Moroccan justice. "The one who says that Latifa has fled abroad is right, Latifa has fled, but into the arms of her mother, in her home, in her country, surrounded by her family who loves her," she wrote in the caption of a photo of her and her mother, posted on her Instagram account.

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In a previous Instagram live, the singer had to mention her marriage to Lhaj Ahmed Benbrahim due to the harassment she and her daughter say they are victims of on social media. According to her, the Malian presented himself as a businessman who came to invest in Morocco when they first met. Only two weeks later, he would have asked for her hand. The two lovebirds got married, but this marriage will be short-lived: 4 months and 10 days. Ahmed’s "party" lifestyle, which she describes as "playboy," would be the reason for their divorce. She also denied the information that her ex-husband had given her a villa. The Moroccan singer claims to have acquired it in 2005 before meeting the Malian. She also assured that she never suspected him of being the "mastermind of a large international drug trafficking network".