These successive acts of media harassment are in fact attempts at blackmail which, under the guise of protecting human rights, aim to achieve unavowable goals,” said the DGAPR in a statement in response to allegations made by a French lawyer in some French news websites about the detainee M. B. B., who was sentenced to eight months in prison for recording and disseminating photos and videos of people without their prior consent and defamation against them and against minors.

The DGAPR noted that contrary to the apocryphal allegations of the lawyer concerned according to which the detainee in question would be placed in a cell housing 15 prisoners, and which also point out the insufficiency of the frequency and the duration of the telephone communications granted to him, he is housed with 9 other co-detainees in a cell that has 12 beds and enjoys all the rights recognized by the law in force to all prisoners, adding that he has the right like any other co-detainee in this institution to make phone calls three times a week and each time for a duration of 10 minutes.

The prisoner has shown willingness to participate in activities to prepare for reintegration, the statement added, noting that he recently participated in the “National Caravan of the Moroccan Sahara in prisons” by performing in a skit before inmates and guests.

The false nature of the allegations of the lawyer is established by the telephone communication of a consular official with the management of the penal institution, dated September 27, 2021 and in which she thanked it for the good treatment of this prisoner as well as the other inmates of French nationality held in this prison, a treatment that was well observed by French consular agents during their visits to these prisoners, specified the DGAPR.

It is strange that French news websites spread false and biased allegations about the conditions of detention in the aforementioned local prison and even generalize them to other penal institutions in the Kingdom, seeking thereby to mislead public opinion, while they are silent about the “poor conditions of detention” and “degrading treatment” in French prisons that have been blamed on this country by the European Court of Human Rights in its report made public on January 30, 2020, concluded the same source.

Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse