More than 81,375 recovery cases were handled by a Casablanca court in almost record periods and unbeknownst to debtors. The practices unveiled by Yabiladi are denounced by consumer rights organizations.
In its 2019 country report on human rights practices, the US Department of State referred to the most significant human rights issues in Morocco. Most of them were linked to torture allegations and freedom of speech.
After Yabiladi revealed that thousands of debt recovery cases were being handled in an extremely rapid way and without giving a chance to debtors to defend their cases, the main judges involved in these practices seem to have lowered the pace of their work. Will the new pace remain the same ?
An uproar has started among lawyers, bailiffs, judges and companies involved in the industrialization of justice and the privatization of the Casablanca court of First Instance, simply known now as #MahkamaGate.
The man behind North Africa’s first Holocaust Memorial said that he had received a letter from the authorities, ordering him to leave the country and to put an end to his NGO’s activities. Speaking to Yabiladi, Oliver Bienkowski said that he is planning to bring the case to court, resisting his expulsion.