Security Guard Killed in Morocco Over Cigarette Dispute

It is the judicial police of Agadir who have initiated an investigation into the murder that occurred last Saturday in the Taddart Anza district on a 60-year-old night watchman.

It all started, says Assabah, with a dispute between the victim and his alleged murderer, a young man who killed for a cigarette.

The guard not having any, the young man in question who, according to the first elements of the investigation, was not in a normal state, got angry and violently attacked the guard, inflicting a fatal blow to the head.

The alleged murderer then fled, leaving his victim lifeless behind him. But he was arrested by the police just a few hours after his crime, following a large-scale search and identification operation of the aggressor.

Placed in pre-trial detention, the alleged murderer will be brought before the courts as soon as the investigation is completed, the newspaper specifies.