Nurses Sentenced for Theft from COVID-19 Patients in Moroccan Hospital

The Court of Appeal urged the defendants, prosecuted while in custody in the local prison, to pay the victims’ families a lump sum in compensation for the damages suffered. Several stolen items had been seized during the search of the two nurses’ homes.

The case had come to light in November, when the family of a Moroccan living abroad, who had died from the Coronavirus, had reported the theft of a mobile phone and a sum of money in local and foreign currency. The examination of the surveillance cameras and the nurses’ register had made it possible to identify the main perpetrators.

Caught thanks to the evidence provided by the investigators, the two nurses were found guilty of several thefts of property belonging to patients who had died from the Coronavirus.