This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Al Haouz
The Hunting Police, affiliated with the Royal Moroccan Hunting University, were able to arrest two people suspected of practicing indiscriminate hunting inside the permanent nature reserve of the community of Ozkita, in the province of Al Haouz.
According to well-informed sources, the arrest operation resulted in the seizure of two hunting rifles which were in the possession of the defendants, and five cartridges were found in one of the rifles, while their other accomplice fled after disobeying police orders.
The same sources indicated that the suspects belonged to a local sniper association and that police managed to arrest them engaged in random sniping.
It is planned that the incident files will be transmitted to the competent authority of the Regional Directorate of the National Agency for Water and Forests. It is also planned that a fine of 4,000 dirhams will be imposed on each of the people arrested for having fired in a prohibited zone, in addition to taking legal measures against the third party who fled and refused to comply. , according to the royal decree regulating sniper shooting issued in July.
