Fez police arrest man accused of insulting and defaming officers online
Translated from Arabic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Fez judicial police, working with Morocco’s intelligence and territorial surveillance authorities, arrested a man suspected of insulting and defaming public officials online.
- Traffic officers had stopped him while he was driving with a small child in the front seat and issued a violation.
- Prosecutors are supervising the judicial investigation into the circumstances and alleged motives of the case.
Police in Fez arrested a man suspected of insulting officers and defaming them on social media after a traffic stop.
The city’s traffic police had stopped the man while he was driving a car with a small child seated in the front. Officers issued him a traffic violation, after which he allegedly posted a video insulting police officers on social media pages.
The arrest was carried out by the Fez prefectural judicial police in coordination with Morocco’s General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance. Prosecutors are supervising the judicial investigation, which aims to establish the circumstances of the case and determine the alleged motives behind the acts.
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Originally published by Télégraphe in Arabic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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