Maroc : Les détails du procès en appel des 18 supporters sénégalais
The 18 Senegalese supporters sentenced to prison in Morocco for "hooliganism" denied on Monday, during their appeal trial, having taken part in the incidents that marred the final of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, according to AFP.
The 18 defendants were sentenced on February 19 in the first instance to prison terms ranging from three months to one year. The prosecution has requested that these sentences be increased to up to two years before the Rabat Court of Appeal, the report states.
According to AFP, in court, the defendants explained - mostly in Wolof translated into French and then into Arabic - that they had been forced to go down onto the pitch of the stadium because of a crowd movement or to escape "spitting and projectiles being thrown", and not to protest against an arbitration decision.
During the hearing, she reports, defense attorney Naïma El Guellaf requested the release of videos of the incidents, on which the prosecution's case is based, to verify whether the defendants could be identified. The prosecution argued that this request should be denied, citing the flagrant nature of the crime. "The whole world saw these distressing images live," they argued.
"There have been mistakes, the people involved in what happened are in Senegal and are not 'present here'," Patrick Kabou, another defense lawyer, told AFP.
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