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Rabat – Two students, aged 23 to 39, were arrested on Wednesday by members of the judicial police of Casablanca’s Hay Hassani security district for their alleged involvement in a case of sexual blackmail and unlawful usurpation of identity, with the intention of inciting debauchery.
According to a police source, the Casablanca police had opened a judicial investigation as a result of two complaints filed by female students.
They claimed that the suspects had impersonated faculty and staff members at their former faculty in order to incite them to vice. The students also accused the two suspects of sexually blackmailing them by threatening to use social media.
Technical research and field investigations later identified many more female students who had been the victims of similar crimes, the police source explained, adding that the two suspects were also caught in flagrante delicto in possession of the electronic gadgets they allegedly used for online sexual blackmailing.
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The suspects were taken into police custody for an investigation under the supervision of the public prosecutor’s office, with the police source noting that further investigations will make it possible to shed more light on the case.
This case is the latest in an alarming series of online sexual blackmailing incidents uncovered by Moroccan security services in recent months.
Last month, Moroccan police dismantled in the coastal city of Safi a network alleged to have sextorted minor female students.
Converging reports stated that the network’s members compelled the girls to send them explicit photos and videos.
They then threatened them to publish the content on social media, and further investigations established that the gang had also been extorting large amounts of money from many of their victims in order not to publish their photos and videos online.
