Law No. 507 .. between legal truth and deceptive social media
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Abdul Latif Baraka
In light of the wave of false news distributed by social media, which was widely disseminated concerning what was called “the approval of chapter 507”, in a large campaign, which is rumor, and not correct information, its ignorance of law fuel and the development of electronic interaction.
Social media platforms, which have become an arena for immediate suspension and analysis, have experienced a wide circulation of what has been claimed to be a new amendment which concerns health allegations completely naked in force for decades.
Chapter 507… an existing legal text and not new
To clarify, chapter 507 belongs to the group of the Moroccan penal code and is never linked to legal proceedings or to the judicial register card as some promoted, but rather explicitly stipulates the tightening of the penalty in the event of theft crime with weapons, as he indicated in his text what follows:
“The flight is punishable by life imprisonment if the thieves or one of them are pregnant with a weapon, whether visible or hidden, even if the flight is committed by a single person and without the availability of another circumstance of strict circumstances.”
The chapter also tightens the penalty if thieves use a means of transport equipped with an engine in order to access or escape the location of the crime, while allowing the judge to apply the attenuation conditions according to the two chapters 146 and 147 of the same group.
The difference between criminal law and the law on criminal procedure
In this context, it is important that the reader achieves the difference between criminal law and the law of criminal procedure. The first defines the actions which are considered to be crimes and the sanctions prescribed to them.
Consequently, any confusion between chapter 507 of the penal code and article 507 of the law on criminal procedure reveals the lack of legal understanding and facilitates the task of the false promoters of short stories who take advantage of this confusion to relieve confusion.
When does the judge have the right to reduce punishment?
Although Chapter 507 speaks of a heavy sanction which can reach the sentence from prison to life, the Moroccan legislator gave the judge a discretionary power to reduce sanctions in accordance with the circumstances of each case. Chapter 146 stipulates the accused’s possibility of enjoying attenuation conditions if the court considers that the initial sanction is not proportionate to the gravity of the law, and chapter 147 determines the scope of these attenuations, which allows punishment to descend to lighter diplomas according to the case.
– the danger of false news and its impact on public opinion
What really raises concern is not only the content of the false news, but the ease that spreads and the extent of its impact on the consciousness and the confidence of citizens in laws and institutions. Rumor has become an alternative law on communication sites, circulating quickly and sometimes more believing than official texts.
The most dangerous is that some of these publications are not satisfied to spread the error, but rather to give it the “urgent news” and “disclosed document”, so it creates an environment responsible for confusion and panic, without the slightest responsibility towards the repercussions of these lies.
Law criminalizes the publication of false news
Faced with this phenomenon, the Moroccan press law and publishing n ° 88.13 stipulated in article 72 to criminalize the publication of false news if it raises or cause panic of citizens, and to impose financial fines of between 20,000 and 200,000 dirhams. This confirms that the law does not remain inactive before the falsification of information.
The cultivation of verification is a collective responsibility
Tackling the false news does not start from the courts, but rather from the culture of the citizen himself.
Legal information is not exclusive to the elite, but it needs consciousness, an understanding of the context and reliable sources, and a community cannot strengthen its confidence in institutions if it does not protect itself first against disinformation.
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