Tangier Court Sentences Man to Life in Prison for Patricide

The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tangier sentenced a man in his forties to life imprisonment at the end of a trial held remotely, the accused being incarcerated in the local prison of the city.

The man in his forties is on trial for the murder of his father. A case of extreme and brutal violence that shook the neighborhoods of El Aouama and Beni Makada a few weeks ago. At the bar, he confessed. However, he claimed that he did not intend to kill his father. He will justify his act by the mistreatment that the deceased would have made him suffer, causing him "harm every time".

These words are far from convincing the court. Following the requisitions of the public prosecutor, the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tangier imposes on him the sentence of life imprisonment.