The Primary Court in Beni Mellal, Morocco, convicted today MP Abdellah Mekkaoui of the Popular Movement party on charges of fraud and non-fulfillment of a contract.
The court sentenced Mekkaoui to a six-month suspended sentence and imposed a fine of 5,000 dirhams. Additionally, a related civil lawsuit resulted in Mekkaoui being ordered to pay the plaintiffs 200,000 dirhams in compensation.
The charges stemmed from an incident where Mekkaoui and his colleagues prevented a local farmer from harvesting lemons from a farm they had rented to him.
The incident led to clashes before intervention by the Royal Gendarmerie and subsequently, an investigation was initiated under the supervision of the public prosecution.
