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Chafiq is a 33-year-old Moroccan who, just two weeks ago, dared to sneak into the streets of Marrakech, the city where he works. He lives like a plague since he had an accident at 2:30 on New Year's Eve, while he was coming out of a party. She was wearing a blue dress, her back uncovered. The police took him out of the car, a group of men gathered around him to insult him. Chafiq is seen handcuffed, hands behind his back, barefoot, while several digital media have filmed the scene and many pbaders-by have insulted him. The videos are streamed on social networks. "Everyone has seen them," laments Chafiq, from Marrakech. "But the worst part is that several agents took pictures of my identity card and broadcast it on the networks."
Chafiq had just celebrated the arrival of the New Year in a city hotel. Since her childhood, she likes to dress like skirts and dresses, and that's what she did that night. Until now, neither her parents nor her brother knew that she liked clothes considered feminine, she said. Neither the colleagues at the clinic where you work as an administrative officer. In Morocco, homobaduality is punishable by up to three years imprisonment. That's why Chafiq led a double life. He also managed to keep her secret during her 11 years in the armed forces. Until December 31 of this year
"It was a simple road accident with a driver," reports Chafiq. "In principle, I kept turning around the car, but there was a traffic jam and I decided to go back to the scene of the accident." I was surprised because I was there. I saw a lot of people around my car, I was afraid to leave, I wanted to protect my life above all else. "
Chafiq did not open the door and the police broke the front window and the door. took for her. "Everyone filmed me and insulted me, it was humiliating, and then they took me to a police station and the disaster happened." They photographed my map. Identity and spread it over different networks, as if I were a criminal.Then they let me go.And the next morning, I received messages from my colleagues who had seen the video and my identity card. "
The Moroccan police summit, at an unprecedented event, announced sanctions against the four agents of the municipality. Marrakech involved in the dissemination of data. But the damage is already done. "The worst thing is the damage done to my family, I suffer a lot for them, I want to leave them on the margins of everything that happens to me." When she saw the video, my mother lost the Everybody already knows where I live and recognizes me in the street.I am afraid and I would like a European country to welcome me.My dream is to live in a country. where human rights are respected The activist Betty Lachgar helps me achieve this goal. "
Betty Lachgar, spokesperson for the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (MALI), said that "In Morocco a person who is transvestite or trans, as we consider it, no … it must always be hidden, but the worst that can happen to you is the humiliation suffered by many LGTBs when their identity is revealed on the networks.In a country like Morocco, it is horrible.It is a conservative and homophobic country, of patriarchal society. Chafiq never thought of leaving Morocco. He lived relatively well, but now his whole life is ruined: with his family, at work, in social relations … "
Lachgar notes that Article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code, which punishes" acts unlawful and against the nature with persons of the same bad "with penalties ranging from six months to three years imprisonment and a fine equivalent to 85 to 425 reais, also applies to people whom the authorities consider as "homobaduals because of their dress"
Chafiq never left Morocco
Three years of imprisonment for homobaduals
FRANCISCO PEREGIL
The organizations of defense of human rights in Morocco continue to call for the repeal of article 489 of the Criminal Code punishing up to three years in prison for same-bad badual relations. the authorities are not content with the harshness of the law and communicate to the media the personal data of the detainees.
In June 2015, for example, two homobaduals who were kissed in the tower were arrested for "shameless demonstration". Hbadan, monument on the terrace resting the remains of Hbadan II and Mohamed V, respectively father and grandfather of the current monarch, Mohamed VI. The contempt for the two detainees was to reveal their identity and residential address, where they lived with their parents.
The following year, in March 2016, five men entered the house of a homobadual lying with his partner in the town of Beni Melal, a municipality. 163,000 inhabitants four hours drive from Rabat. After having beaten them, they threw us naked in the street. Two weeks later, they published images of public humiliation on the Internet. In one of the first trials, one of the victims was sentenced to four months in prison and released on parole. In the second instance, the judges ordered that the victims be sentenced to a probation term of three and four months, which would save them from imprisonment, and sentenced two of the perpetrators to six months' imprisonment. After the decision, dozens of residents demonstrated in Beni Melal to defend the homophobic detainees.
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