770 million dirhams will be spent in 2020 for military service, according to the Minister of Defense, who took the opportunity to lift the veil on the expenses related to this reform launched last year.
Military service and money transfer agencies serve as a gateway for aspiring jihadists. This is revealed by the investigations conducted by the National Brigade of Judicial Police (BNPJ) .
The four conscripts who were arrested a few weeks ago for insubordination have each been sentenced to one year in prison by the Military Court of Rabat. Indeed, during military training, the defendants refused to carry out orders given by their superiors.
In training at the Guercif and El Hajeb centers, four military service conscripts were arrested for refusing to obey direct orders given to them. After being questioned by the Royal Gendarmerie during their 48-hour custody, they await their trial at the Salé military prison, which begins on September 24.
A death was recorded among the conscripts, on Friday, August 30, 2019, at the military camp in Meknes. It is a 22-year-old man from the city of Safi.
At the headquarters of the Southern Zone of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) in Agadir, the first contingent of conscripts for the 2019-2020 military service has arrived. In the lot, the female gender is strongly represented with a workforce of 145 girls.
From Monday, August 19, 2019 until August 31, the 2019-2020 conscripts will be enrolled. The service itself is scheduled to start on September 1, according to a statement from the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces.
After Eid al-Adha, the first group of young people subject to military service is expected in the barracks. In the end, 15,000 will be selected out of 25,000, after the medical examination and selection examination phases.
The first group of young people subject to military service will be welcomed into the barracks starting August 10. Before this deadline, they are busy completing the last formalities.
The phase of census of conscripts for compulsory military service ended on June 7, after a two-month period. Out of the 130,000 registered, 30,000 candidates have requested to be exempted from military service.
Next September, military service will start for 133,820 young people registered on the electronic platform dedicated to this institution (Tajnid). The observation remains that, even if military service is not compulsory for girls, for the account of this first contingent, 13,614 of them have nevertheless registered, i.e. 10.17% of the total workforce.
The call for military service has found a favorable echo among young Moroccans aged 19 to 25. 134,000 candidates answered the call, including 14,000 girls.