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Join on Telegram Rabat – A 17-year old minor killed two people on Tuesday in Sidi Rahal Chatai in the Berrechid province, near Casablanca.
The minor used a hunting rifle to shoot the victims.
Two more people sustained injuries.
State media said the minor was in an “abnormal condition” when he used his father’s hunting rifle and started shooting indiscriminately.
Officers of the Royal Gendarmerie arrested the minor, who is now in custody for further investigation to determine the circumstances of the case and the minor’s motives.
“I lost my husband. I ask for justice and my rights,” the wife of one of the victims told local media Le360.
Her husband, a father of six, was working as a guard near the beach of Sidi Rahal.
The shooting of two in Casablanca comes as a shock in a country where both firearms and related crimes are very rare. The US Overseas Security Advisory Council in its 2020 report highlighted that in Morocco, “due to the low availability of firearms in Morocco, when violent crimes occur, they tend to involve edged weapons such as knives.”
In 2020, security services handled a total of 851,343 criminal cases, including 817,259 that police were able to solve.
A report from Morocco’s General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) said that the country’s crime rate is 33% higher than a year earlier.
The DGSN report emphasized that Moroccan police were able to solve 96% of the criminal cases recorded last year.
The rate is unprecedentedly high thanks to the development of scientific and technical tools used in crime scenes, according to the same data.
