Moroccan Soccer Fan Dies After Clash with Police at CAF Champions League Match in Tunisia

Arrived in Tunisia to attend the first leg of the 2nd preliminary round of the CAF Champions League between AS FAR and Étoile Sportive du Sahel (ESS) in Sousse on Saturday, September 16, 2023, Imad El Moujahid will know misfortune. "After a brawl broke out between us and football fans in a restaurant, Tunisian police officers intervened to end this violent altercation. But as the situation was not under control, the officers had to use tear gas and batons to deter us," says an anonymous supporter contacted by Maroc Hebdo.

According to this witness, Imad was the only one not to protect his face during the police intervention. As a result, the supporter would have been hit in the cranial cortex, which would have affected his faculties. "Imad would have been absent for about ten hours, from 3 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon," testify other sources. The hotel security guards would not have allowed him to enter the premises due to his state of health and his injury. He then returned to Morocco. "At the airport, Imad was in a deplorable state of health. He was seriously ill. We offered to treat him in Tunisia, but he refused," says the same source.

Imad would have accidentally fallen into a drain about 2 meters deep, and would consequently have lost consciousness all night until one of the locals came to his aid and accompanied him to the hotel, specifies a source close to the victim’s family circle. "This is what he had reported himself," she concluded. On September 22, 2023, the AS FAR supporter died in Rabat from a subdural hematoma. On the web, Internet users denounce the habitual police brutality towards Moroccan supporters and players in Tunisia.