Suicide cases are increasing in Morocco. More than a thousand Moroccans took their own lives last year, according to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), which is sounding the alarm on a worrying phenomenon.
Two children of Moroccan origin, victims of an attempted murder by their own mother, are in serious but stable condition in intensive care at the University Hospital of Navarre, in northern Spain. Their sister, less seriously injured, is currently recovering in the surgery department of the establishment.
The Generalitat has agreed for the 12-year-old boy, whose Spanish father stabbed his Moroccan-born mother to death in front of him before committing suicide, to be temporarily hosted by a neighbor, close to the family.
Morocco is one of the countries with the highest suicide rates in the world, according to figures compiled by Our World in Data, based on 2019 data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Hassan Idrissi, a former Belgian socialist elected official of Moroccan origin, committed suicide at the age of 46, leaving behind a wife and three children.
While he was to appear in the next few days before the Tulle correctional court for assault on two prison guards, a young Moroccan inmate, illegally in France, committed suicide in the Neuvic detention center. An investigation is underway to understand the exact circumstances of his death.
A Moroccan jihadist inmate committed suicide in his cell at the Salé prison. This inmate, presumed to be affiliated with the Islamic State group, had been arrested on March 15 with two other individuals and all three are suspected of having assassinated a policeman whose charred body was found in early March near Casablanca.
The Tanger prosecutor’s office has decided to open an investigation into the ten "doubtful" suicides recorded in one year at the Errazi psychiatric hospital in Tanger. The bodies of some of the victims bore bruises on the head and signs of strangulation.
Three police officers averted a tragedy in Lugo, in northwestern Spain. Thanks to their quick intervention, they saved a 23-year-old man of Moroccan origin who was threatening to jump from a building under construction. Several residents had called the emergency services to report the presence of a person on the roof of the building.
A man convicted of terrorism committed suicide on Wednesday at the Ras El Ma prison in Fez. This is the second suicide recorded in Morocco in 24 hours in a prison.
One of the men sentenced to death for the Imlil murders hanged himself on Tuesday morning in his cell. He was detained in the local prison of Oujda.
The murder earlier this week of two children aged 9 and 13 in a hotel in Marrakech has not finished revealing all its secrets. At the current stage of the investigation, all the elements point to the victims’ father, a French national of Moroccan origin, as the main suspect.