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Morocco, “offense to Islam”: 3 years in prison for a young Italian-Moroccan

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He renamed the Koranic verse Kautar, the one in which Muslims are forced to sacrifice, “whiskey verse”. The post on Facebook, dated 2019, is evidence of a “public offense against Islam” that led to prison in Marrakech, writes theAnsa, a 23-year-old Italian student of Moroccan descent.

The girl, enrolled at the University of Marseille. was blocked last June 20 at the airport of Marrakech, where she had landed from France to join her family, who resides in Morocco. Born in Vimercate, in ’98, where her parents had moved at the time, Fatima, invented name, grew up in the province of Monza; for university studies she then chose Marseille, where she is enrolled in the law course.

“Public Offense to Islam”

When she arrived in Morocco, the border police blocked her at airport customs. The student who has a double passport would only show Moroccan documents. She would have been stopped because as a Moroccan and therefore a Muslim she would have “publicly offended Islam”. The girl spent a week at her parents’ house, awaiting the first degree hearing.

On June 28, the sentence was sentenced to three and a half years and 50,000 dirham fine (about 4,800 euros), he took her to prison, in the city where she planned to spend her holidays, in view of the Feast of the Sacrifice which falls on 21 July. “We are following the case which is particularly delicate”, explains Armando Barucco, Italian ambassador to Rabat.

The Honorary Italian Consulate in Marrakech is in contact with the girl’s family and tries to gather information, in the absence up to now of official communications from Morocco. The news of the sentence was published by the Moroccan Ministry of Justice, in Arabic.

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