Testimony of Kamal Anouar, victim of Moroccan police beating
07/07/2010 | Testimony
Name : Anouar Kamal
Date of birth : 27.11.1983
N. CI : SH 125862
Profession : jobless
Address : Quartier Et-Aouen Av Dir Aidak N 46
El-Aaiun Western Sahara
Sunday night was not like other days, the Moroccan police stepped up patrols and imposed a blockade and curfew in the area of the airport and surrounding areas.
I stood before my family’s houses in Dir Aidak headquarter, near the headquarter of Almatar where they attended the ceremony of condolence and mourning for El Mahfoud Ali Baiba occurred.
A Moroccan police patrol approached me, one of them came out and asked me for my ID, I told him that I am near the house of my family, but he insisted that I have to presented to him. I went into the house and I gave it to him.
He asked me to help him collecting the leaflets that were on the ground, and the flags of the Polisario.
When I refused he hit me, then handcuffed me and his colleagues forced me to climb aboard the cruiser.
There, they started hitting me, screaming at me insults and racist words.
After driving a while, they handed me to another patrol led by Abdelali Alaoui ‘El-azou’.
During half an hour, they interrogated and punched me. They wanted to know who had distributed leaflets and flags of the Polisario. As I said I did not know they kept hitting me.
The patrol has brought me back to my house and they kept hitting me before my parents and bystanders
El-Aiun Western Sahara
07.07.2010
