New persecutions against Sahrawi citizen Mr. Hassanna DOUIHI
08/08/2007 | Information-Update
El-Ayoune – Western Sahara
Mr. Hassana DOUIHI, to whom the Moroccan police had confiscated his car and papers on Friday August 3, 2007, was once again subjected to new persecutions. Mr. DOUIHI went Monday August 6, 2007 to deposit a complaint in front of the prosecutor general near the court of second degree to claim an investigation on the confiscation of his car and his papers. But the latter refused to receive the complaint of Mr. DOUIHI under pretext that it must be addressed to the prosecutor of the king near the court of first authority. Mr. DOUIHI then went, today Wednesday August 8, 2007 to deposit his complaint in front of the prosecutor of the king near the court of first authority in El-Ayoune. But the letter also refused to receive the complaint under pretext that it must be addressed to the chief of the judicial police in El-Ayoune.
However, when Mr. DOUIHI went to the police station to claim his car, he was surprised to learn that the prosecutor of the king, who refused to receive his complaint, wrote to the chief of the police about the complaint. The letter answered that the car of Mr. DOUIHI had been confiscated because he is charged of attack to the territorial integrity of Morocco. The chief of the police force considered that Mr. DOUIHI has attacked the territorial integrity because he had accompanied the Italian judge, Mr. QUATRANO, to the court of El-Ayoune. Thus, it is enough to accompany a foreigner in El-Ayoune to be charged of attack to the territorial integrity of the kingdom of Morocco!
Later the confiscated car was returned to its owner who was surprised to find his papers in the gloves box whereas he had given them to the police officer who had arrested his last on August 3.
