Women demonstrating for their rights, March 8, 2015 in Rabat (Morocco). – FADEL SENNA / AFP
New case of gang rape at
Morocco. Oumaima, a 17-year-old Moroccan teenager was abducted, raped and kidnapped by around 20 individuals, according to the news site
Yabiladi, taken back by
France Info. In great distress, the young woman is hospitalized at the Ibn Rochd Hospital Center in Casablanca. His ordeal lasted nearly twenty-five days. While her mother had gone for a run, the teenager was abducted from her Casablanca neighborhood before being taken to the neighboring town of Lahraouine. There she was repeatedly raped, tortured and forced “to ingest toxic substances that would kill her,” according to her mother.
A wave of support
She managed to escape after twenty-five days of ordeal with the help of a man who had come to rape her: “This individual had come to the scene to rape her too, but he finally gave in to her pleas and helped her to flee ”, according to Walid Bensalima, president of the Moroccan Sayidati association. Still according to Yabiladi, “she is suffering from an acute psychological crisis and her family is not allowed to see her.”
The story of Oumaima sparked a wave of support, with the creation of a Facebook group “We are all Oumaima”, to make this news item “a matter of public opinion”.
A case that recalls that of Khadija, kidnapped, raped and martyred by a group of men in 2018 in the same region. Its history had aroused a significant mobilization on social networks and a very great emotion in Moroccan society.
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