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Suspect Arrested in Fatal Rabat Rape Case Captured on Video
Wednesday 17 July 2019, by
On Monday, July 15, 2019, a horrible video showing a woman victim of a rape had alarmed the web. To provide clarification and silence the rumors, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) reacted by specifying that this case had been handled by the Rabat Police Prefecture on June 8 last.
The video of the rape of the woman in question will have gone around the social networks and shocked more than one. Reacting immediately, on the same Monday, the DGSN explained that after the discovery of the victim’s body in an alley in the medina of Rabat, this case had been handled by the Rabat Police Prefecture.
According to the DGSN press release, the victim, who was in critical condition, eventually succumbed to her injuries on June 11. As for her tormentor, who also appears in the video, he was arrested and brought before the courts for voluntary homicide.
An investigation is currently underway to get hold of other accomplices in this heinous crime, more specifically, the person who filmed this macabre scene, adds the DGSN press release.
This crime comes in addition to another case of rape that occurred on Wednesday, July 11 last. It was an 11-year-old child named Reda, raped and tortured, whose lifeless body was found in an abandoned building in the Béni Mohammed district of Meknes. Here too, specifies the DGSN, the aggressor, a man in his forties with a history of homicide, was arrested.