Suspicious Death of Retired Engineer in El Jadida Prompts Exhumation and Investigation

The retired engineer had settled in El Jadida in 2019, where he had rented an apartment. He died this year under unclear circumstances. His landlord is a man with a criminal record involved in ongoing cases before the courts for forgery, forgery and use of forgeries, and theft. He had taken him to the emergency room of a hospital, where he died, and had buried him, without first informing his relatives and children. The deceased’s family then filed a complaint with the justice system. On the orders of the El Jadida public prosecutor’s office, the body of the retired engineer was exhumed. An autopsy was then performed in Casablanca to determine the cause of death, reports Assabah. After which, the body was buried by his family in a cemetery in Temara.

The results of the autopsy are not known to all. However, the hypothesis of a crime is conceivable. The man would have died of poisoning. While he was in El Jadida, his property had been sold at derisory prices: a farm worth more than three million dirhams in the province of Khémisset was sold for 500,000 DH. The same goes for an apartment in an upscale neighborhood in Rabat.

The owner of the apartment he had rented in El Jadida would be the alleged perpetrator of the homicide. Investigators are continuing their investigations to shed light on this case. On Thursday, the investigation focused on the contradictions noted in the reports and administrative and health documents relating to the death.