Court to hear leading PJD figure on involvement in 1993 Morocco murder

CASABLANCA – The judge of the Court of Appeal in the Moroccan imperial city of Fez announced that the hearings of the detailed investigation into the involvement of a leading member of the ruling Islamist party in the murder of Mohamed Aït Ljid Benaïssa in 1993 would begin on April 19, according to the daily Al Ahdath Al Maghrebia.
The victim’s relatives are demanding the condemnation of Abdelali Hamieddine, who was elected Sunday regional secretary of the party of justice and development (PJD) of the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region, for intentional homicide.
But Hamieddine dismissed the allegation as "a coordinated, recurrent and bad faith media campaign". He is also the subject of complaints filed by the family Ait Ljid, the last dating from late 2017. He appeared on March 5 before the investigating judge.
Mohamed Aït Ljid Benaïssa was killed in 1993 as a result of violence at the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah in Fez. Clashes erupted between leftist and Islamist students which resulted in Ait Ljid’s death. Since then, Hamieddine has served a two-year prison sentence between 1994 and 1996 for charges of "participating in a seditious meeting in which violence leading to death" occurred.
After his release, Hamieddine was granted reparation following his application to the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER) regarding the conditions of his arrest and his "pre-trial detention".
Omar Mohib, designated as the main culprit and affiliated to the Al Adl Wal Ihsane movement, was arrested thirteen years after the bloody events in Fez, according to Medias24.
Mohib was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in 2007 for wilful homicide.