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• Gendarmes’ Lawyers Challenge Drug Trafficker’s Bribery Claims in Casablanca Court
  26 February, by Sylvanus

  At a first hearing at the Casablanca Court of Appeal on Tuesday, the lawyers of several gendarmes accused of corruption highlighted the contradictions in the statements of the drug trafficker Mohamed S., who claims to have paid them bribes to facilitate his illicit activities.
  Lawyer Khalid Fakerni, representing the accused Rachid S., a former gendarme in Beni Mellal, confounded Mohamed S. He presented substantial evidence showing that his client was no longer in office at the time the (…)

• Moroccan Gendarmes Accused of Extorting Spanish-Moroccan Women at Border
  2 March, by Prince

  Two Spanish women of Moroccan origin claim to have been victims of blackmail and fraud by two Moroccan gendarmes, as they were returning to Melilla after a vacation in Ifrane.
  The events took place on Friday, reports the Nador Human Rights Association, which specifies that the Spanish women, residents of Melilla, were arrested by Moroccan gendarmes as they were going to the autonomous city after spending a vacation in Ifrane. The agents asked them for their identity documents and the (…)