Fez – Moroccan actress Latifa Ahrar has revealed that she was subject to a failed blackmailing attempt through a phone call she received from an anonymous person.
In a video she shared on her official Facebook account, Ahrar noted that the incident dates back to last week. The actress explained that the anonymous person called to inform her that a group of people had hired him to physically assault her.
Ahrar “went to the police station in Rabat,” she added, in “the day following the call where she filed a complaint on the matter.”
The police managed to stop the blackmailer in a short period of time, according to the actress.
Investigations by the judicial police later revealed that the caller’s purpose was extortion, Ahrar noted.
Expressing her gratitude to the police officers for their “keenness to uphold the law,” the actress urged citizens subjected to all forms of blackmailing to file complaints. Morocco is not a country of “Siba” (chaos), she stressed.
Defined as the unlawful exaction of money or property through intimidation, extortion involves coercion of money in exchange for not doing a harmful thing to the person in question.
Morocco has in recent weeks witnessed a scandal of sextortion, a form of extortion in exchange for sex, with many female students reporting a “sex for grades” epidemic at various Moroccan universities.
