A criminal network of five people working on promoting and smuggling banned medical pills used to terminate pregnancy, was dismantled by the 2 March Royal Gendarmerie in Casablanca.
According to available data, the network was promoting tablets called “artotec” smuggled from the Ministry of Health.
The medication was sold on social media, mainly attracting women involved in relationships out of wedlock that resulted in unwanted pregnancies.
The first suspect was arrested near the port train station, through an ambush in which he was found possessing a significant amount of the aforementioned tablets, in his car, according to the Public Prosecution.
Further investigations led the Royal Gendarmerie to capture accomplices in Mohammedia, one of whom was arrested with a hundred tablets found in his car. The members of the network were selling the pills for amounts ranging between MAD200 and MAD300 per pill.
In addition to those arrested, a woman who was in contact with the network wishing to acquire the pills was as well arrested.
Women should have the right to abort and terminate unwanted pregnacies in a free democratic society. It’s shameful!