The regional brigade specializing in the fight against crime in the wilaya of Casablanca referred, this Friday, the fiancé of the French lawyer, alleged victim of gang rape, to the King’s prosecutor, to the criminal court of first instance of Casablanca.
The accused, placed in police custody, is accused of “violation of the secrecy of the investigation and the investigation of the case”, reports the daily Assaba in its weekend edition of January 4 and 5.
According to the newspaper, “the fiancé of the French lawyer broadcast an audio recording of fourteen minutes and a few seconds, recounting the details of the hearing of the people involved in this case before the investigating judge, revealing their statements, further claiming that the magistrate in charge of the investigation would have accused him of abandoning his complaint».
In the same audio, widely distributed on mobile instant messaging applications, “the accused allegedly uttered insults and insults towards a lawyer who is defending one of the accused in this case».
This lawyer from the Settat bar accuses the lawyer’s fiancé of “of defamation, insults and attack on the investigating judge in the exercise of his functions», indicate the daily sources, specifying that “on Friday around two p.m., the accused still remained at the disposal of the competent public prosecutor’s office who had not yet decided on an extension of the period of police custody or preventive detention».
The accused continues Assabacould be continued according to “the provisions of article 447 of the Penal Code, which punishes defamation and the dissemination or distribution of information relating to the private lives of people without their consent”, and article 263 which sanctions “contempt towards constituted bodies“. The accused faces a sentence of up to four years in prison.
Par Mohamed Younsi
01/03/2025 at 9:18 p.m.
