Case of the extension of the province and the municipality of El Jadida: Six convictions pronounced and 36 defendants exonerated

The verdict was delivered on Friday at 10 pm, after 11 hours of deliberation. It was pronounced by Master Abdelali Lamkhatri, president, in a courtroom packed to capacity due to the large number of people prosecuted both in a state of freedom and in a state of arrest (42 people) and the public who have been following this case since the El Jadida Court of Appeal took it up at the beginning of March 2011.This trial concerns the case of the extension of the El Jadida provincial building, in which a significant number of defendants are prosecuted for forgery of documents and embezzlement of public property or participation in the embezzlement of public property. Thus, the provincial architect Mohamed Fares, the project architect Mohamed Senhaji, and the contractor Ouâl Mahfoud are prosecuted in a state of arrest.Six other civil servants are also prosecuted, but in a state of freedom (1 eng…