Electronic Science – Najat Al-Nasiri
“Electronic Science” learned from informed sources that the judicial police heard on the morning of Wednesday, January 10, the family members of a remand detainee who died in Oudaya Prison due to not receiving doses of “insulin,” according to instructions from the Public Prosecution.
Members of the deceased’s family were received by the Deputy Governor of Security, the Head of the Fifth Security Region and the Chief of the Judicial Police.
The same sources added that their statements were heard in official records, within the framework of the security services’ keenness to take the legal process in its normal course, especially after the deceased’s family filed a complaint with the office of the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal, demanding that he open an investigation into the incident.
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights, Manara Marrakesh Branch, had previously sent a letter to the Attorney General of the Court of Appeal of Marrakesh, asking him to open a transparent and impartial investigation into the circumstances, causes and circumstances of the death of a father of two girls who was under arrest in the local prison of Ouadaia.
The association confirmed through its letter that it had received a complaint from the brother of the deceased, stating that his brother, named “M, S,” was working in his shops in Moulay Yazid Square in the Kasbah district of the old city of Marrakesh, but these shops were damaged by the earthquake, which made him lose his livelihood. He is the father of two young daughters, one of whom is one year old and the other is 5 years old. After all prospects were blocked and his social situation deteriorated, he returned to temporarily practice the profession of tourist guide near his closed shops due to earthquake damage.
The complainant adds that his brother, M.S. Al-Mazdad, in September 1992, was suffering from a chronic disease (severe diabetes), and he was arrested on December 23, 2023 in front of his shops in Moulay Yazid Square in the Kasbah by the tourist police and taken to their headquarters, and that his family immediately learned of the arrest. She tried to deliver the medicine to him (insulin), and despite her protest with her son’s medical file, the head of the tour group refused to receive the medicine and the medical file, confronting her by saying, “There are no health files, no medicine, nothing but the month,” according to the complaint of the deceased’s brother.
The complaint added that the detainee was kept under theoretical guard in the security department in Marrakesh before being brought before the Public Prosecution on December 25, 2023. After that, he was referred to the hearing, where the judge examined his health condition and ordered that the follow-up be provided with his medication. After the hearing, the detainee was transferred to the Oudayas prison, where his health condition worsened. Due to the absence of medication, which necessitated his transfer to the Mohammed VI University Hospital Center in Marrakesh on the following day, December 26, where he spent 5 days under intensive care and subsequently died, according to the statement of the complaint.
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights, Manara Marrakesh branch, expressed its fear that the causes of the death of the deceased, “M. “S” resulted from the negligence and tortious liability of the police in not giving him medication, and not taking him to the doctor immediately after his statements and his family’s statements, or after noticing the deterioration of his health condition.
The association indicated that it is not permissible, according to international human rights standards and national law, to deprive any detainee, prisoner, or detainee of his medication, especially for chronic diseases that require regular medication intake. Note that the deceased declared during his arrest that he had a chronic disease, and that his family also declared this immediately upon learning of the arrest, stressing that the authorities authorized to enforce the law have a duty to preserve the safety and security of citizens, including those arrested and detainees.
The association called on the Attorney General to open a transparent and impartial investigation into the circumstances, causes and circumstances of the death of the deceased, “M. S, and arranging legal penalties in order to ensure the rules of justice and fairness.
It is noteworthy that the victim died on the night of Saturday, December 30, at the Mohammed VI University Hospital Center in Marrakesh, where he was being treated for chronic diabetes.
According to data, the victim was transferred on Tuesday, December 26, from the local prison of Ouadaia to the university hospital, two days after he was admitted, following his conviction for effective imprisonment for “impersonating a tourist guide without a license.” He remained in the hospital for five days under medical care before his soul was released to its innocent.
The same sources indicated that “Al-Fokid” was convicted and placed in the local prison of Oudaya on the twenty-fifth of this month, but his health condition quickly deteriorated two days after he was placed behind bars, when he was presented to the prison doctor, who ordered his transfer to the hospital center. University Mohammed VI in Marrakesh, where he died five days later.
The same sources pointed out that most of the unlicensed tourist guides have recently been pursued in the event of arrest and conviction to effective imprisonment, noting that a number of them were excluded from the competition announced by the Ministry of Tourism to settle the situation of this category, among which there are people who have professional experience and have signed. Decades of work in this field.
The same sources confirmed that monitoring this category in detention comes at a time when the state is seeking to rationalize pretrial detention, and to approve alternative means to imprisonment in the Moroccan criminal law draft that was recently presented to Parliament, to confront the problem of overcrowding in prison institutions in the Kingdom. .