Taroudante- After the uproar caused by a video showing a security guard straddling and abusing a nine-year-old Moroccan boy at Malmo station, Nezha El Wafi, a member of parliament of Justice and Development Party, sent a letter to the President of the Swedish Parliament asking for justice for the Moroccan boy.
El Wafi requested the President of the Swedish Parliament to "take all measures to compensate the child in accordance with the legal and constitutional regulations and international conventions for the protection of childhood."
In her letter, the Moroccan parliamentary highlighted the importance of the joint responsibility to cooperate in order to reduce “the growing racism, prejudices and stereotypes that feed hatred against Muslims and immigrants in general."
The video shows the guard sitting on the boy’s chest and pressing his gloved hand violently over the boy’s mouth and nose while the child was crying and gasping for air.
The most shocking moment is when the boy struggles to recite the Shahadah (declaration of faith), that is said when a person is about to die.
The footage has sparked an international uproar and shocked Sweden, the first country in the world to ban corporal punishment for children.
According to The Local, both boys went missing after the incident and now they are reportedly in Denmark, “being taken care of by Danish social services.”
Speaking at the meeting of the Government Council on Thursday, Abdelilah Benkirane, the head of government, denounced the abuse of the nine-year-old Moroccan boy and condemned the aggression and discrimination that has recently targeted Moroccans and other people of the Muslim faith and that has "exceeded the bounds of reason" in some Western countries.
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