Wealthy Moroccan-Dutch Man Faces Trial for Gendarme’s Death in High-Profile Case

On Thursday, Ould Lefchouch (pampered son of a rich man), prosecuted for voluntary manslaughter, appeared before the Second Degree Criminal Chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal. Granting a request from the defense, the Court postponed the hearing to the last week of December, reports the daily Al Akhbar. In March 2023, the First Instance Criminal Chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal had sentenced this defendant born in the Netherlands in 1990 to a Dutch mother and a Moroccan father to 20 years in prison.

The facts he is accused of occurred in 2019. As he was returning to Rabat via the coastal road after having lunch in Harhoura with his fiancée, this son of a rich family was flashed by a radar exceeding the speed limit. A gendarme asked him to park his car to give him a ticket, but he refused to comply. He rammed the soldier, violently hit him, then dragged him for about ten meters before fleeing. Admitted to the hospital, the gendarme succumbed to his injuries.

During his first trial, the defendant claimed not to have seen the gendarmes’ roadblock, as a monster traffic jam had reduced his field of vision and he had only seen the gendarme at the last second. What false allegations! As evidenced by a video and surveillance camera images, as well as the camera on board his luxury car.