Moroccan Woman Accused of Fraudulent Divorce by Dutch-Iraqi Husband

In a statement to the Al3omk website, Milan Chakir said he was surprised by the divorce judgment pronounced at the request of his wife, while he had not received any summons to attend a hearing before the Moroccan court. The Dutch national of Iraqi origin says he was surprised to learn that he was represented by a lawyer in the case, assuring that his passport and the data of the Moroccan border police confirm that he has not entered Moroccan territory for more than 5 years.

The man is surprised that the lawyer who represented him without his consent indicated in a note to the court that he was renouncing all his rights, which led the Moroccan court to pronounce the divorce before the completion of the divorce procedure initiated against him in the Netherlands by his Moroccan-born wife. "After 10 years of marriage, my wife filed for divorce against me in the Netherlands after I left several properties in her name. She dragged the procedure by changing her lawyer each time, before I was surprised by a divorce judgment pronounced in Morocco without my consent," he said to the same source.

The Dutchman accused his Moroccan-born wife of having "falsified her nationality" to present him in her application to the Tétouan court as "a Moroccan citizen" residing in Kénitra, the address to which the court sent him the summons. "I have no address in Morocco, and the divorce judgment indicates that I am Moroccan when I am not, so I cannot understand how this judgment was rendered in Morocco," said Milan Chakir, who appealed the decision, asking the court to annul the divorce.

The Dutchman filed a complaint against his wife and the lawyer who represented him without his knowledge for falsification of official documents. The court decided to prosecute the lawyer concerned at liberty and ordered his ban from leaving the national territory. "I have been going to the Tétouan court for more than a year and a half to claim my rights, while the divorce judgment was pronounced in only two months. I am really in a state of shock and I have suffered a great injustice, this should not happen in Morocco, and I ask that justice be done." A new hearing has been set for May 16, after several postponements.