Morocco’s Police Chief Suspends Officers Over Mishandled Child Abuse Case

The details are provided by the police department, according to which it is three officials from the Casablanca police prefecture: the first, a police officer serving in the Ben Msik district, has been provisionally suspended from his duties pending his appearance before the disciplinary council. He is accused, among other things, of "professional misconduct in the preliminary handling of a complaint filed by a minor who would have been tortured and threatened by her employers".

Then a senior officer and a senior police commissioner who receive, for their part, a reprimand, for "transgressions and administrative shortcomings identified by the inspection report". The senior commissioner, acting head of the district, was on duty when the complaint was filed.

The case dates back to February 23 last, recalls the DGSN, and concerns a couple suspected "of employing, torturing and threatening a minor domestic worker and making false statements, after the end of the preliminary investigation and the expiration of the custody period".

Following this case, the general inspectorate of the national security had continued "its administrative investigations regarding the excesses and professional shortcomings attributed to the police officers, following suspicions of misconduct in the preliminary handling of this case at the level of the police district that was on duty," it is also indicated.