16 Rioters arrested, 6 up for major Trial

Firing and carry out acts of sabotage during protesting Asafi - Nagwan Tijani  Judicial sources reporting from the Moroccan city of Safi on Wednesday evening, said that police have been referred to a court of appeal in the city. The Public Prosecution has leveled charges against six people, for allegedly committing acts of sabotage in two public institutions during the violent confrontations that occurred between protesters and police last Monday evening.  A judicial source from the court of Appeals said to "Arabs Today", said that the security department in Safi, located 350 km south of the capital Rabat, arrested 16 people who contributed to the riots. Two of them were turned over to their parents because they were underage, which was ordered by the specialized public prosecution. The rest of them have been detained for further investigation and to bring them to justice. He stated that the suspects who have come to court are to be sued for charges of vandalism, arson to public property and the burning and destruction of public documents in the tenth territorial administration and the fifth Security Service. These are accusations that deserve, by the criminal law, severe penalties if the defendants are found guilty. A security source in the city told "Arabs Today", that the police received a green light
from the public prosecution for extending the backup guard against seven other suspects for the incitement of acts of riots that Safi witnessed in the past week. A group of rioters had set fire to the neighborhood of the Territorial Administration of Sidi Wasel in Safi. They burned the offices, cabinets and contents of civil service registers and documents relating to residents in the neighborhood which is linked to the 10th district. Security sources said that the protesters used iron machines to breakdown the front facades of the fifth security department in the district of Kawky in the city, destroying documents and stealing computers belonging to the administration.  
The General Governor of National Security denied that the securities interests might lead them to hire inciters to burn administrative headquarters in Safi and subsequently justify its intervention in the face of the protesters. After the riots in the city of Safi on Monday where protesters had burnt several administerative buildings and obstructed trains, the Director released a statement. He denied the allegations from some media outlets which published a statement from a branch of the Moroccan institution for Human Rights in Safi city claiming –falsely- that some people were hired by security forces to burn these centers and breaking its windows to justify the intervention of security in the face of protesters. The general directorate for national security announced that, “On Monday morning about 50 people, from the Institution and the alliance of phosphate group intended to put barriers on the railway that links the chemical boat and the port of Safi, this would have led to a block on the movement of trains. This required the intervention of the
Security Forces, who went to stop the protesters as required by law. "  The statement added that “the protesters intended, at five o'clock, to commit riotous acts that resulted in the setting fire to the tenth territorial administration and the fifth headquarters of the Department with the aim of destruction of its contents, archives and personal documents. Fifty eight members of the security forces were injured after being assaulted by protesters armed with stones. The statement added that "In contrast, in the context of the statement attributed to a branch of the Moroccan Association for Human rights in Safi, the city’s public prosecutors gave its orders to the judicial police to open an investigation regarding the claims mentioned in the statement, which says that some people were being exploited by the security services to cause these riots"