Morocco opens probe into Sahrawi separatists’ congress

RABAT - Moroccan authorities opened on Tuesday a judicial investigation into the constitutive congress of the so-called "the Sahrawi Commission against the Moroccan occupation."

The prosecution ordered the opening of the judicial probe into the holding of the congress, announced the public prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of Laayoune.

“This judicial inquiry, which takes place in view of what this act represents in terms of attacking the territorial integrity of the Kingdom and includes clear incentives to commit acts contrary to the Penal Code, will make it possible to take the appropriate legal measures to preserve the public order and will give rise to the legal sanction for attacking the territorial integrity of the Kingdom, with both public and private dissuasive effect guaranteeing the preservation of national constants, the public prosecutor said in a statement.

Moroccan media reported that the instigators were notorious separatists from within, like Aminatou Haidar.