The kidnapping took place this week. Leaving the school, a student was kidnapped before being drugged and taken unconscious by the kidnapper. According to local sources, the kidnapper, whose identity remains unknown, took quantities of the child’s blood in an isolated location before releasing him. The student then returned home. His family had meanwhile reported his kidnapping to the Royal Gendarmerie. She is conducting an investigation to elucidate this matter. According to the family, the child did not suffer any physical or sexual assault. Based on this statement, residents also speculated that the kidnapper acted for witchcraft or magic purposes. They suspect him of belonging to gangs looking for treasure using the blood of “Zouhri children” in their beliefs. Ibrahim Razkou, president of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, Zagora section, who affirms that the “phenomenon of child abduction has spread, over the last ten years, throughout the territory of the region of Drâa-Tafilalet, and in the south-eastern region in general” does not share this opinion.
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In a statement to the site Al3omk, Razkou believes that we should not always think that the kidnapping of children is intended to use them in rituals of magic, witchcraft or in the search for treasures in isolated areas, under tombs and mausoleums. Gangs could kidnap them “with the aim of selling their organs or using them as shepherds in areas very far from where they live,” he said. Faced with the repetition of this phenomenon, he calls for “activating an early warning mechanism when any phenomenon of this type occurs, given that this mechanism does not only concern natural disasters, but also disasters that threaten the human security, such as child abduction. »
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The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) launched, last March, as part of a partnership with “Meta”, owner of Facebook, the “Missing Child” system, a system linked to this alert mechanism. early, to help find reported missing children or children missing under mysterious circumstances. The president of the Zagora section of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights also relies on the partition of educational establishments which he asks to organize awareness sessions for students “on this subject, in order to avoid that ‘they will not be tempted in any way. »
