Public opinion in the city of Tangier in northern Morocco is awaiting details of a murder that occurred years ago, with the victim being a Moroccan family man and the perpetrators being his wife and eldest son. In a new development regarding the crime, the public prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in Tangier decided to imprison a woman and her five children after their arrest for their involvement in the murder of the father and for hiding his body within a concrete wall in the famous "Old Tangier" neighborhood.
The public prosecutor has referred the accused to an investigating judge on charges of physical torture leading to death, failure to report a crime, and drug trafficking.
Preliminary data indicate that the mother and the eldest son are the main suspects in the murder of the father, as they allegedly committed the crime at home before moving the body to a second residence in Tangier and concealing it within a wall, using reinforced concrete in 2018.
The murder case resurfaced a month and a half ago after Moroccan police arrested an individual in a drug trafficking case, leading investigations to the family's home where the father was killed. Also, leaked information from the investigation indicated that the police's field investigators noticed suspicious circumstances around the family's house wall.
The family committed the murder after physically torturing their father, although the motive for the crime remains a puzzling mystery. However, the police investigation into the family's drug trafficking operations tightened the noose around the mother and son until they broke down under questioning and revealed details about the killing of the family head.
It is worth noting that the first threads of the crime surfaced after police investigations regarding the possession and trafficking of drugs and psychotropic substances, following a campaign of arrests against suspects involved in drug possession and trafficking. A field team of Moroccan police seized 4,331 ecstasy pills, 17 doses of cocaine, 290 grams of heroin, 52 containers of anesthetic gas, 42 medical narcotic pills, and 700 grams of chemicals used in manufacturing ecstasy.
