A total of 84 migrants were sentenced to prison sentences ranging from 2 to 4 months this week, at first instance in Nador.
The migrants appeared before the courts for charges of “irregular migration, possession of weapons and violence against the security forces.”
The verdicts were rendered over several days, with detained migrants being separated into several small group, according to the Nador fraction of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH).
Last Tuesday, the Nador Court of First Instance handed down charges against 51 migrants, in five different trials, reports the Spanish news agency EFE.
Quoting the platform of the Ministry of Justice, EFE reports that 38 migrants were sentenced to 4 months in prison, with a fine of MAD 500 each, for “violence and assaulting public officials, disobedience, possession of weapons and crimes related to irregular migration.
13 nationals were handed sentences ranging from 2 to 3 months in prison and a fine of MAD 500 for irregular migration and possession of weapons.
On October 27, 31 other migrants were sentenced to 4 months in prison with a MAD 2,000 fine for “irregular migration, violence and insults to civil servants, possession of knives and disobedience.”
Some of the migrants concerned appeared before the criminal chamber, according to the same source, who specified that they were charged in two separate trials, making up groups of 25 and 6 people.
Last Monday, two migrants were sentenced by the same court to 3 months in prison and a MAD 1,000 fine for “unauthorised stay in Morocco and possession of knives.”
Citing local sources, EFE indicates that these trials follow the arrests from operations carried out by the security forces on October 14 and 19 in the Gourougou forest in Nador.
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