The group for Defending Rape Victims announced, Thursday in Rabat, its decision to file an international defamation complaint against the man named Maati Monjib, following his defamatory allegations undermining the victims of Taoufik Bouachrine.
The group decided to take the way of legal proceedings to face the man named Maati Monjib, by filing a complaint with the country of which he bears the nationality and uses it against national institutions, said lawyer Abdelfattah Zahrach during a press conference organized by the body.
This approach is in no way a devaluation or an underestimation of the national judiciary, insisted Zahrach, stressing that the Moroccan judiciary, in all independence and impartiality, has done what is necessary in this case.
During this conference, organized under the theme “The rights of victims, between sovereignty of justice, State of institutions and tendentious allegations”, the lawyer at the Rabat bar strongly condemned the remarks made by Monjib, presuming that the victims of Taoufik Bouachrine are the creation of a “secret structure”.
Zahrach further asserted that the statement of Maati Monjib are a senseless attack on the victims, a fact that has nothing to do with human values.
He also underlined that the victims of Bouachrine are real victims who suffer martyrdom because of the sexual assault they experienced and its psychological, moral and material repercussions.
The methods used against the victims of sexual assault, whether at the level of the Bouachrine case or others, “discredit the national institutions, undermine the independence of the judiciary and cast doubt on the acts incriminated under the Moroccan criminal law and international laws”.
During this conference, moving testimonies were given by many victims of sexual assault by Taoufik Bouachrine, in particular Asmaa Hallaoui and Naïma Lahrouri, in addition to the testimony of Hafsa Boutahar who accuses journalist Omar Radi of sexual assault. They recounted their daily sufferings following these assaults, the repercussions on their professional, social and personal lives and their moral and material impact.
In these heartbreaking testimonies, the victims vigorously denounced the defamation they suffered by third parties and the questioning of their status as victims of sexual assault, saying that they have chosen today to testify in order to break social taboos relating to sexual assault. In this context, they urged all victims to file a complaint against their attackers and not remain silent against these heinous crimes.
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