The France 24 network reported that “19 people have died in Morocco due to poisoning after drinking tainted alcoholic beverages.”

And she pointed out that “Police officers in the city of Al-Qasr Al-Kabir in the north of the country arrested a 48-year-old man with a criminal record on suspicion of being involved in the sale of alcohol that harms the population. health and causing death of its consumers.

For his part, Amiran Chaouki, a local spokesman for the Moroccan Ministry of Health, said that “the total number of deaths rose to 19 people, while there were other cases that were critical, but dropped out of the intensive care unit,” noting that the age of the victims ranged from 35 to 50 years.

He stressed that “the bodies of the dead were taken to a hospital in the neighboring city of Tangier to prepare for a medical autopsy to determine the cause of death.” It is planned that the autopsy of the bodies of the dead will be carried out by order of the prosecutor’s office after the registration of suspicious deaths of a group of people after drinking an alcoholic substance harmful to the health of the population, which caused their death.