This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – follow-up
Late yesterday evening, Monday, the Criminal Appeal Chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal ruled on the case of the accused gendarme, accompanied by an informant and a night guard, of crimes of detention, fraud , fraud, extortion and solicitation of bribes. which targeted a lawyer from the town of Khemisset.
The court decided to impose sentences totaling 20 years in prison against the defendants.
In detail, the court sentenced the main accused, a 51-year-old gendarme, to ten years in prison, while ruling that the same period would be divided between his two accomplices in the crime, the informant and a night guard, each including five years in prison.
Last May, the criminal chamber of first instance handed down sentences amounting to 35 years in prison, including 15 years for the gendarme, the rest of the sentence being distributed equally among his deputies.
The details of this scandal date back to June 2023, when the lawyer residing in Khemisset called for help from the prosecution after being exposed to an operation of legal fraud, fraud and blackmail, planned by the police and in which a night guard and an informant from the same neighborhood where the lawyer participated.
The victim confirmed in his complaint that the gendarme showed up at his home in Khemisset disguised as an officer of the National Brigade of Royal Gendarmerie, and threatened him with arrest, claiming that he had caused serious damage to the health of one of his relatives in Rabat, due to a treatment prescription including amulets and natural herbs that he had delivered to him. The police also demanded 8 million cents in exchange for stopping investigations and arrests, according to identical press sources.
