Kuwaiti in court in Morocco after death of young woman

The Kuwaiti men suspected of involvement in the death of a 22-year-old Moroccan woman after her fall into a swimming pool of a villa in Ouahat Sidi Brahim in Marrakech will appear in court next Friday.

Last Friday, the Court of First Instance in Marrakech postponed the trial of the suspects in the case of the death of a young woman under suspicious circumstances in a luxury villa. All will appear in court next Friday.

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Several people were arrested following the death of the 22-year-old woman. After their appearance before the Court of First Instance in Marrakech, the Public Prosecutor decided to remand a Kuwaiti national and the Moroccan manager of the tourist complex to which the villa belongs. Seven other persons of Kuwaiti nationality have been placed under judicial supervision with bail of 10,000 dirhams each. Three young Moroccan women are also under judicial supervision with bail of 5,000 dirhams each. They are accused of seducing a minor, indecent assault without violence, corruption, incitement to prostitution and drug use.

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According to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights in Marrakech, the accusations against the suspects do not match the actions attributed to them. The organization believes that one cannot speak of “indecent assault of a minor without violence”, as rape and sexual exploitation of a minor are considered violence under international human rights. The association added that the court ruled out the suspicion of human trafficking, which constitutes a serious violation of human rights and national law criminalizing it.