Attack of Journalist and Cameraman by Local Administrator: Incident Relates to Intervention for Implementation of Health Emergency State (Ministry of Interior)

09 mai 2020 Printable Version

Rabat - The incident, which was reported in the media, accusing a caid (local administrator) in the city of Tiflet (Khemisset province) of attacking a journalist and a cameraman working for the Amazighiya TV channel, concerns an intervention of the representative of the local authority to impose the provisions of the state of health emergency in one of the large markets in the city, after observing the gathering of several people around a camera, which is a violation of the state of emergency decreed, the Interior ministry said Saturday.

As soon as it was informed of this filmed incident, the ministry of the Interior opened an administrative enquiry and sent a central commission to the headquarters of Khemisset province to carry out a thorough and detailed investigation into the matter, the same source said in a statement.

The journalist and cameraman refused to present the local authority representative with the documents justifying their professional quality and insisted on continuing the filming with the camera in active mode, as attested by the video delivered by the persons concerned to the electronic sites, the ministry explained, adding that this video refutes the journalist's allegations that she was slapped by the Caid, since no footage was filmed showing what was alleged to be violence.