Moroccan Singer Sparks Outrage with Call for Domestic Violence on TV Show

We remember that the misogynistic and sexist remarks of Adil El Omari, a journalist from Radio Mars who suggested to a listener to "take care" of her kitchen, "watch Choumicha’s shows and stay away from football and the national team", had been condemned without restraint. However, Adil Miloudi, for his part, has frontally attacked the Moroccan woman.

Indeed, on the set of the show, "Kotbi tonight" on Chada TV, in the company of the French actor Sami Naciri, he openly called for domestic violence. The video, which has just resurfaced on social media, is strongly condemned.

"One day I beat my wife in Spain, they put me in custody before releasing me. In Morocco these things are quite normal... Every man must take care of his wife: hit her, kill her,... These are his business," he said during the show. And he added, in conclusion: "A man who does not hit his wife is not a man."

These remarks are shocking in a context where Morocco is striving to make great progress in creating a legal framework for the protection of women’s rights, even though the gaps between the figures and the reality they live in daily seem very wide for the moment.

Indeed, according to the latest data published by Bassima Hakkaoui, Minister of Family, Solidarity, Equality and Social Development, violence against women is still widespread and stands at 54.4% nationwide, while 93.4% of victims of sexual violence do not report their distress to the authorities.