Supremacy of the Moroccan "Police Chief's Daughter"
The commander of the Sidi Abdel Karim, a neighborhood in the city of Settat (Morocco), accompanied by his assistants and some security officials, stopped cars driving in the main street and asked drivers for their transportation licenses, as a strict evening curfew is installed in Morocco during Ramadan due to the increase of COVID-19 cases.
While they were patrolling one of many checkpoints during curfew, a media outlet was live broadcasting the process of checking who's allowed to be out and who's not in the city as part of the tightening of surveillance for all of those who have resorted to themselves, violating the night movement ban imposed during Ramadan.
Everything was fine and seemed normal until a car appeared with a girl on board. When she was stopped at the checkpoint, a security officer informed the commander that she was the police chief's daughter ("Commissar" in Moroccan). After, he said to her in a colloquial tone, "Are you the daughter of our Police Chief?" which made the other officers at the checkpoint repeat the phrase in Moroccan dialect: "Bent lcomissaire dialna" ("Our Commissar's daughter"). At those specific words, they let her through the checkpoint without asking her the reason behind her going out during the curfew or asking her for the documents proving that she was eligible to be out. The video circulated on social media, causing big controversy in Morocco.
Facebook activists monitored another incident of another woman who was also arrested at a checkpoint just after the infamous "Bent lcomissaire" for violating the state of a health emergency. The recording showed the officer demanding 300 dirhams ($30) on the spot and preaching that she is not allowed to be out after 8 pm. This treatment wasn't for "Bent lcommissaire" because she is not a common person, and thank God I'm not driving at night right now in Morocco, as my father is not a police chief or someone important, and so I'd be one of those who the entire law applies to and would be out of 300 dirhams ($30). In this case, I wish my father was the police chief; I would spare the 300 dirhams to buy a drink…Oops! Forgot! We can't drink during Ramadan!
Many social media users criticized the police agents' behavior at the checkpoint, accusing them of hypocrisy and applying the method: "Anything you curse publicly, you practice in secret.”
By Simo bb
