Acts of violence and destruction in Casablanca

Police officers from the Sidi Bernoussi security district in Casablanca arrested nine individuals on Thursday evening for their alleged involvement in acts of violence linked to hooliganism and damage to public property, we learned from a security source.

After being alerted to the involvement of a group of football team supporters in an exchange of violence and throwing stones, endangering the safety of people, patrols from the Casablanca police immediately intervened. to restore public order, the same source continues.

These criminal acts, which left one police officer injured, also caused material damage to a law enforcement vehicle, adds the same source, noting that research and investigations led to the arrest of the nine accused in possession of a bladed weapon, two smoke bombs and stones.

The defendants were placed in police custody at the disposal of the judicial investigation carried out under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office in order to elucidate the ins and outs of this case, while research and investigations continue in order to apprehend all people potentially involved in these criminal acts, concludes the same source.