Sexual harassment

Articles

• French School Principal in Marrakech Suspended Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations
  17 May 2019, by Kamal

  The principal of Victor Hugo French High School is accused of harassment and sexual abuse of students and teachers within the institution. Despite his total denial of the allegations, he has been suspended from his duties pending the end of the investigation.
  A former student of Victor Hugo High School has sent a message to the parents of students, drawing attention to the seriousness of the principal’s acts of harassment, and creating a controversy within the establishment.
  She asks (…)

• Moroccan Activist Alleges Sexual Harassment by Settat Official in Viral Video
  28 September 2019, by Kamal

  In a video posted on social media, an activist resident of Belgium accuses the President of the Provincial Council of the city of Settat of sexual harassment.
  The activist would have received obscene messages on Facebook and WhatsApp when she was preparing the Migrant Festival in Settat.
  According to her, the President of the Council would have asked to meet her at her home at late hours. After rejecting his advances, she claims that he gave her an appointment in his office.
  The (…)

• Moroccan MP Accused of Sexual Harassment, Sparks Government Scandal
  28 December 2019, by Ginette

  A scandal is hitting the El Othmani government head-on. The National Rally of Independents (RNI) and the Constitutional Union are at the heart of an accusation of sexual harassment.
  The plaintiff is the regional coordinator of the National Rally of Independents (RNI) in Taourirt. She accuses a member of parliament from the Constitutional Union of sexual harassment, reveals Le360 citing the daily Assabah.
  In a video circulating on social networks, the coordinator explains that she was (…)

• Supermarket Security Guard Sentenced for Sexual Harassment of Coworkers
  13 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  The Nîmes criminal court sentenced a Moroccan, employed as a security guard in a supermarket, to 12 months in prison with a suspended sentence for acts of sexual harassment on female colleagues.
  According to the plaintiffs, the Moroccan would have made vulgar remarks and invited them to get closer to him sexually or maritally. Touching was also mentioned. Facing President Brice Barbier, the forty-year-old said he had not "realized the extent of his remarks, otherwise he would have stopped (…)

• UNESCO Report: One-Third of Moroccan Students Face School Harassment
  27 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  In its report entitled "Beyond the Numbers: Ending Violence and Harassment in Schools", UNESCO presents the situation of prevalence and global trends in school violence. The case of Morocco is worrying.
  UNESCO presents harassment in all its forms: psychological, physical, sexual and even online. According to its report, the prevalence rate of harassment cases in schools in Morocco is 32.2%, reports Aujourd’hui Le Maroc. This rate clearly explains that nearly one in three students has been (…)

• Moroccan Farmworkers Appeal to Spanish High Court Over Labor Abuse Claims
  23 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  While a court has just rejected the appeal they have filed for violation of their rights, they do not intend to give up the fight so soon. According to the daily Assabah, the Moroccan seasonal workers have decided to take two joint actions to obtain justice. This is how they have seized, as a last resort, the Superior Court of Justice.
  To recall, it all started last year with the head of a Spanish trade union organization who hired several workers to work on his farm with the promise of an (…)

• Teacher Falls Victim to Online Sextortion Scheme in Chichaoua, Morocco
  18 October 2019, by Kamal

  A sextortion case has just erupted in the city of Chichaoua. A primary school teacher fell into the trap of a harasser who was posing under a false profile.
  On a dating site, the teacher fell for a person who was pretending to be a widowed teacher.
  The teacher did not hesitate to send intimate photos to him until he realized that it was an impersonator. A few days later, the impersonator demanded the sum of 20,000 dirhams under threat of publishing the photos on the Internet and (…)

• Peace Corps Volunteer Falls Victim to Moroccan Hacker’s Sextortion Scheme
  18 October 2019, by Kamal

  An American citizen, a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps Agency, was the victim of sextortion by a Moroccan hacker who managed to hack her mobile phone.
  The Moroccan hacker threatened the young woman to publish her photos and personal information on social networks if she refused to send him money.
  Under pressure, she decided to file a complaint with the Judicial Police of Chichaoua, for harassment and hacking of personal data. The investigation led to his arrest in Kenitra, after (…)

• Moroccan Official Suspended for Harassing American Peace Corps Volunteer
  12 March 2020, by Kamal

  The governor of the province of Boulemane has decided to suspend from his duties, an authority agent with the title of Caid, in the municipality of Arjane, accused of harassment against an American volunteer, member of the American Organization for Peace.
  While staying in the region, the American national had informed the American Consulate of the harassment she had been subjected to by the municipal official.
  Things could have stopped at the stage of verbal harassment, if the accused, (…)

• Kuwaiti Detectives Hunt Moroccan Cybercrime Ring Targeting Officials
  30 June 2019, by Kamal

  Private detectives, originally from Kuwait, have launched a search campaign. It concerns Moroccans involved in electronic sexual harassment activities and defrauding large sums of money from Kuwaiti officials and wealthy businessmen.
  As part of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) linked to international law firms, the detectives are tasked with collecting as much information as possible about the victims and the methods used in the fraud, before filing complaints with the security (…)