HIBAPRESS – Mohamed Daher
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Marrakech ruled, on Tuesday, January 13, with sentences totaling 69 years in prison for 16 defendants in acts of violence that accompanied the "Generation Z" protests.
According to the information received by the newspaper, the court decided not to convict nine defendants of the crime of intentionally setting fire to vehicles and to declare their acquittal of it and to convict them of the rest of the charges against them, and to punish each of them with three years in prison. It also decided to convict seven defendants of the charges against them and to punish each of them with six years in prison and to bear the costs, and in the subsidiary civil lawsuit not to accept it in form and to charge the plaintiff with the costs. The court is expected to rule during today's session on a second file that is being followed up on 38 defendants for "qualified theft at night and breaking, intentionally setting fire to a place and vehicles, and insulting and using violence against public officials, resulting in injuries and destruction of movable property in groups using force, and defacing and breaking things intended for public benefit, demonstrating in public without permission, and possessing weapons in circumstances that would threaten the safety of people and property." The indictment also included "intentionally setting fire to vehicles that did not have people and an unoccupied building, organizing an unauthorized demonstration, armed gathering, and the crime of intentionally setting fire to a forest of cut wood."
