Tragic Accident: Teen’s Video Game Dispute with Mother Turns Fatal in Moroccan City

This is a tragedy that has shaken the city of Sefrou. A woman lost her life for 5 dirhams. Faced with her refusal, the 15-year-old boy violently pushed his mother, who hit her head against a step. Death followed from internal bleeding. According to Assabah, faced with the tragedy, the young man, instead of calling for help, tried to disguise the murder as a natural death. Overflowing with imagination, he placed his mother’s body on her bed and left the house as if nothing had happened. He will come back a few hours later and pretend to wake the victim. Without success. He then started to scream, thus alerting the neighbors.

Once on the scene, the neighbors alerted the authorities, who gave the instructions for an autopsy of the body of the woman in her forties. It was shown that the death was not natural and had been caused by a hemorrhage. The authorities opened an investigation and questioned the eldest of the victim’s three children. The latter tried to hide the truth by inventing a story that only fueled the investigators’ doubts.

After tough questioning and under pressure, he finally confessed what had really happened. He was sent to the Bourkaiz prison pending the thorough investigation opened for violence causing death. According to the newspaper, the death of the family mother adds to the long list of victims of the "Free Fire" game for which several young Moroccans have committed suicide.