Security interests clarify about "police abuses"

The General Directorate of National Security said that it interacted very seriously with pictures and clips circulating on social media, accompanied by comments and Facebook posts attributed to a policewoman in civilian clothes, working in Agadir, “that she exceeded the legally defined framework for the legitimate use of force when dispersing and dispersing Gatherings that are not authorized by the public authorities and that threaten public security.

The security interests confirmed that they had taken note of this issue, and stressed that “their central services are currently studying the various aspects of the systematic intervention in which the aforementioned policewoman participated, and reviewing all the untrue and complete recordings documenting this security intervention, as well as checking the hypothesis The existence of provocation or not, and the extent to which the participants in the gathering comply with the calls to disperse issued within the framework of the law, in order to enable it to ascertain the whole truth about the supposed published violations.

The same source indicated that “many documented recordings and video clips were monitored, which were cut out of their general context, and in which the same policewoman is attributed to whom these supposed abuses are attributed, and she is subjected to being pushed and threatened with stones by one of the participants in this unauthorized gathering.” authorized by public authorities”.

The General Directorate of National Security reiterated that “evaluating the work of law enforcement forces in the context of dispersing crowds is subject to strict organizational rules and judicial control within the framework of implementing the Public Freedoms Law, and that all personal transgressions recorded in the work of security personnel are subject to the necessary research, and are dealt with With it in this framework, far from the calls of pitting and virtual mobilization in which some have engaged in the purpose of violating the personal consideration of the National Security employees, who are motivated by one motive and seek one goal, represented in balancing and reconciling the maintenance of security and public order on the one hand, and the protection of rights and freedoms on the other hand, without negligence. And no excess.”

A videotape showing a policewoman in civilian clothes abusing a female citizen sparked widespread controversy on social media.

The “Clean Hands” association in the city of Inezgane decided to file a lawsuit against the policewoman accused of abusing female demonstrators during the vigil that was organized against the “permissibility of vaccination” in the city of Agadir last Wednesday.

The association stated in a statement that it is in the process of collecting data on the incident of “policewomen assaulting peaceful female citizens who exercise their legitimate right to peaceful protest, which is guaranteed by the Moroccan constitution, law and international covenants.”