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Morocco GBV Tracker

7 indexed fatal people · 1 indexed serious non-fatal event

Reviewed 25 October 2026 · published 26 October 2026 · coverage from 1 August 2026. This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.

Fatal figures count people; serious non-fatal figures count distinct events. Research leads are excluded. August and September’s calendar periods have ended; this incomplete register remains open to late reports and corrections. October remains in progress.

Start with: Monthly evidence ledger → for the month-by-month picture, or Counted case index → to inspect individual indexed records. Uncounted research leads and corrections remain further down the page.

Monthly evidence ledger

Month	Fatal people	Non-fatal events	Cumulative fatal people	Cumulative non-fatal events
August 2026	1	0	1	0
September 2026	5	1	6	1
October 2026	1	0	7	1

Zero indexed means no qualifying dated record entered here, not zero violence. Incident/death dates determine the month; documented discovery can be an explicitly provisional proxy. Article, arrest and court dates alone never determine occurrence month.

Reported actor and victim gender

Fatal allegation pairing	People; denominator 7
Man alleged → woman	5
Woman alleged → man	1
Man suspected → child, gender disputed	1

Non-fatal denominator: 1 event. One male-actor/female-survivor event, linked to MA-GBV-2026-007. Undated MA-NF-2026-001 remains excluded. Existing provisional fatal classifications are unchanged.

These categories describe this register only. Unknowns remain in the denominator. An allegation, charge or police attribution is not a finding of guilt.

Counted case index

Stable case ID · open history	Person or safe identifier	Unit
MA-GBV-2026-001	Fès man · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-GBV-2026-002	Tunfite adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-GBV-2026-003	Midelt-province child · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-GBV-2026-004	Oujdan adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-GBV-2026-005	Marrakech-region adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-GBV-2026-006	Casablanca-Settat adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-GBV-2026-007	Béni Mellal-Khénifra adult woman · identity withheld	Fatal person
MA-NF-2026-002	Béni Mellal-Khénifra adult survivor · identity withheld	Distinct non-fatal event

9 source-linked research records remain outside the dated totals; they include undated, unclassified and out-of-coverage leads.

August 2026 · individual histories

Fès man · identity withheld · MA-GBV-2026-001

Unit: One fatal person · Month: 2026-08 · Date: By 26 August 2026; body found by 26 August · Place: Fès area

Victim/survivor gender: Man · Reported actor: Woman, wife suspected

What is reported: A man was found dead at home and police reportedly arrested his wife on suspicion of involvement. Early reporting described an initial account that other people had attacked him, followed by an investigation into his death. This is an intimate-partner-related fatality in the public-source register, with no finding of guilt or proof of motive.

Justice stage: The wife was reportedly held for investigation under prosecutorial supervision; no conviction found.

Evidence and limits: Police-reported suspected intimate-partner killing; date provisional. The exact incident time and perpetration are unproved; 26 August is the reported discovery/arrest date. The second outlet may follow the same police account, so it is not independent corroboration. Date basis: Police custody and discovery reported on 26 August; exact date of death not confirmed

Original source trail: Voicetoday · police investigation · 26 Aug · Hibapress · police reporting · 26 Aug; access may vary · Checked: 12 September 2026 · Back to month

September 2026 · individual histories

Tunfite adult woman · identity withheld · MA-GBV-2026-002

Unit: One fatal person · Month: 2026-09 · Date: Found 9 September 2026 · Place: Midelt province

Victim/survivor gender: Woman · Reported actor: Man, husband suspected; attribution unconfirmed

What is reported: A woman, a young child and the husband were found deceased in the same household. Hespress described a gendarmerie investigation in which outside involvement was initially thought less likely; a second local report provisionally attributed the two killings to the husband. The wife’s death is indexed provisionally as a suspected intimate-partner killing, subject to forensic and prosecutorial findings. The husband’s own death is not counted as a GBV killing.

Justice stage: Gendarmerie inquiry and post-mortem examinations were reported as pending. No final assignment of responsibility is available.

Evidence and limits: Provisional suspected household GBV killing; attribution open. The initial mainstream report says the circumstances remain unclear and does not itself prove the husband killed anyone. The stronger attribution in another outlet is provisional. No alleged mental-health or marital explanation is asserted as fact. Date basis: Dated household discovery 9 September; forensic date of death not established

Original source trail: Hespress · initial scene and gendarmerie inquiry · 9 Sep · Belpresse · locally sourced provisional account · 9 Sep · Checked: 12 September 2026 · Back to month

Midelt-province child · identity withheld · MA-GBV-2026-003

Unit: One fatal person · Month: 2026-09 · Date: Found 9 September 2026 · Place: Midelt province

Victim/survivor gender: Child; gender disputed and not established · Reported actor: Man, father suspected; attribution unconfirmed

What is reported: A second deceased person in the Tunfite household was an infant. A local account identifies the child as a son and provisionally attributes the killing of the adult woman and child to the father. The child is a possible fatal co-victim of the suspected household GBV incident, counted as one separate person in this provisional register, not as a second distinct incident.

Justice stage: Investigation and post-mortem findings pending; no judicial finding concerning the father located.

Evidence and limits: Provisional linked child fatality; GBV nexus open. The child is unnamed and no age, exact address or image is republished. Hespress confirms a deceased infant but does not establish the child’s gender or responsibility. If findings do not support a GBV link, move this record out of the headline total and log the correction. Date basis: Same household discovery as MA-GBV-2026-002; separate deceased person, one incident

Original source trail: Hespress · initial scene and gendarmerie inquiry · 9 Sep · Belpresse · locally sourced provisional account · 9 Sep · Checked: 12 September 2026 · Back to month

11 October gender correction: Le360 Arabic report describes a girl; the existing Hespress/Belpresse lineage differs. Gender is disputed. Retain one provisional child fatality without selecting either description; fatal totals unchanged.

Oujdan adult woman · identity withheld · MA-GBV-2026-004

Unit: One fatal person · Date basis: Found 6 September 2026 · Region: Oriental · Victim: Woman · Reported actor: Man; prior relationship reported · Classification: Provisional.

Police reported that an adult woman was found fatally shot in Oujda on the evening of 6 September. A man who reportedly had a prior relationship with her was arrested the following morning. Investigators recovered ammunition associated with the reported weapon. The case is counted provisionally by the documented death/discovery date while motive and the nature of the former relationship remain under investigation.

Justice: Suspect held for an intentional-homicide investigation under prosecutorial supervision; no adjudication. Sources: Le360 · 7 September 2026 · Siyassi · 7 September 2026; same police lineage.

Marrakech-region adult woman · identity withheld · MA-GBV-2026-005

Unit: One fatal person · Date: 14 September 2026 · Region: Marrakech-Safi · Victim: Woman · Reported actor: Man; husband alleged.

Local reporting citing the Royal Gendarmerie said a woman was killed inside her home on 14 September during an alleged dispute with her husband. The husband was arrested the following day and placed under the applicable investigative procedure. The alleged infidelity explanation remains unverified and provides no justification for violence.

Privacy: Neighbourhood, village, home and identifying images withheld. Justice: Husband arrested; judicial investigation pending; no finding of guilt. Source: Kech TV · 15 September 2026.

October 2026 · individual histories

Casablanca-Settat adult woman · identity withheld · MA-GBV-2026-006

Date basis: Found 2 October 2026; discovery proxy · Unit: One fatal person

Reported actor: Man; husband alleged · Victim/survivor: Woman

Judicial-source reporting says an adult woman was found dead on 2 October following an alleged attack by her husband. Judicial police opened an investigation under the Settat appellate prosecutor and were seeking the husband when reported. Responsibility remains unadjudicated.

Evidence: Reported allegation; responsibility unadjudicated

Sources: Aujourd’hui le Maroc, 7 October · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Open occurrence-month ledger

Uncounted and undated research records

All records in this section are excluded from monthly and cumulative totals. A case-style ID does not imply that a record is counted.

Marrakech-region child · identity withheld · MA-LEAD-2026-006

Time: Arrest reported 28 August; alleged act date and month unstated in 1 September account · Status: Distinct serious non-fatal allegation; event month unknown

A parent reported alleged sexual abuse of a child and police reportedly arrested a suspect. The source dates the arrest and complaint process, but does not give the time of the alleged acts. The victim, family, detailed location and accused occupation are omitted. Do not assign this incident to August or September until the incident period is verified.

Original sources: Aujourd’hui le Maroc · police/court reporting · 1 Sep; act month unstated

Nador-region child · identity withheld · MA-LEAD-2026-007

Time: Arrest 12 August; alleged abuse month not established · Status: Distinct serious non-fatal allegation; event month unknown

Police investigated an allegation of sexual abuse involving a child and arrested a suspect in Nador on 12 August. The report expressly corrects inaccurate social-media descriptions, but it does not date the alleged acts. Neither the police intervention nor the inaccurate online account can anchor a monthly event count. Identity, age, family details and precise location are withheld.

Original sources: Anfaspress · police investigation · 14 Aug; act month unstated

Benguerir woman · reported in August, death month unknown · MA-LEAD-2026-005

Time: Husband arrested 18 August; date of death/disappearance not established · Status: Suspected intimate-partner death, month unverified

Police reportedly arrested a husband after investigating his wife’s disappearance. The case deserves an on-site source trail, but neither reviewed report establishes a death or discovery date within August. It is not silently placed in an August monthly total; promote it when a reliable incident/discovery date is found.

Original sources: Hespress · police investigation · 18 Aug · Yabiladi · police reporting · 18 Aug; same underlying investigation

El Borouj · July death, August arrest · MA-LEAD-2026-001

Time: Assault 16 July, death reported 18 July; arrest 18 August · Status: Outside August–September death window

An August Hespress article reports arrest after roughly a month on the run. July reporting dates the death to July; it does not create an August fatality or repeat the serious injuries to other family members as August non-fatal events.

Original sources: Hespress · August arrest in older case · Khabarkhouribga · July death report

Kénitran adult woman · identity withheld · MA-LEAD-2026-002

Time: Arrest and DGSN report 3 September; assault date unstated · Status: Distinct non-fatal allegation; event month unknown

A woman alleged sexual assault by a man who posed as a police officer. Investigators arrested a suspect on 3 September, but the consulted DGSN account gives no date for the alleged assault. It cannot enter the September incident total merely because an arrest happened then.

Original sources: Le Desk · DGSN statement · 3 Sep, incident date unavailable

Mohammedia · earlier killing · MA-LEAD-2026-003

Time: March 2026 incident in later retrospective coverage · Status: Outside August–September register

Later commentary refers back to an alleged March intimate-partner killing. The publication date is not the date of the death. Review in a future historical expansion, without adding it to the August or September totals.

Original sources: Médias24 · 10 March original report; date control

Sebta/Ceuta · Spanish jurisdiction · MA-LEAD-2026-004

Time: Reported 8 September; occurrence and prosecution in Spanish-controlled city · Status: Outside Morocco territorial case scope

A Moroccan person’s nationality does not make an alleged assault occurring in Sebta/Ceuta an incident in Morocco. The survivor is a child and is not identified on this site. Do not import aggregate case numbers from Spanish reporting into this Moroccan register.

Original sources: TelQuel · September reporting on event under Spanish jurisdiction

Souss-Massa two-survivor event · identities withheld · MA-LEAD-2026-008

Police reported that two adult women complained of being lured, detained, sexually assaulted and robbed. The suspect was arrested on 4 September, but the reviewed account does not date the alleged incident. Record one linked two-survivor event as an undated lead—not two events and not a September incident. Identities, precise location and unnecessary assault details are withheld. Moroccan News Agency · 5 September 2026.

Laâyoune household survivors · identities withheld · MA-NF-2026-001

Date basis: Arrest 4 October 2026; occurrence month unestablished · Unit: Uncounted research record · Excluded from totals.

Reported actor: Man; husband/father alleged · Victim/survivor: Woman and daughter; daughter’s age not established

An Arabic police-derived report describes serious injuries to a woman and her daughter in one alleged household attack, and the arrest of the husband/father on 4 October. The report does not separately establish the attack date. Retain outside dated and cumulative totals pending occurrence-date evidence and a territorial-scope decision. If eligible, this would be one event with two survivors, not two events.

Evidence: One police-derived news lineage; undated allegation

Laâyoune is in Western Sahara; retaining this research lead does not extend the register’s territorial scope. Pre-publication correction: the arrest date is not an incident date.

Sources: Télégraphe, 5 October · Reviewed: 11 October 2026.

Evidence and policy follow-up

Use explicit unknown or disputed categories for victim attributes. Record arrest and occurrence dates separately, and distinguish survivor numbers from event counts.

These are documentation and follow-up recommendations grounded in the listed records, not a prevalence comparison or a finding of institutional failure.

Law, rights and safe referral

Morocco’s Law 103-13 concerns violence against women. The House of Representatives published an assessment of its implementation. The linked parliamentary legislative text is explicitly a historical bill, not a substitute for the current consolidated law. Court findings, not the tracker, decide legal liability. Morocco’s Afrobarometer study uses a different population and method; its survey figures must never be added to this small case register.

In immediate danger, contact local police or emergency services. To send a correction, use the evidence submission form and do not post confidential survivor testimony, child names, identifying images or medical records in public comments. This page does not operate a protected survivor intake.

Method and privacy

The register starts 1 August 2026. Count fatal GBV as people, when a reported intimate-partner, sexual or gender-related nexus is supported. Count serious non-fatal GBV as distinct events, not arrests or articles. Use the incident/death date when known; if the death date is unavailable but dated discovery anchors it, show the substitution and correct the month if later evidence requires it. A report or arrest date alone never establishes a death month. A child co-victim in a suspected household killing is indexed separately as a person, with the shared incident and provisional GBV classification disclosed.

Never infer that all women killed were killed because of gender, or that all domestic deaths have a proven perpetrator. Group reposts of one police statement into one source chain; search Arabic, French and English spellings before treating names or places as new cases. The word “random” is colloquial: these cases were not selected by a probability mechanism and cannot support national rates. Actor-gender unknowns and pending attribution must remain visible. No photographs, exact home addresses, child names, child ages or invasive evidence are republished.

Corrections and version history

First Morocco edition · 12 September 2026: August 1 indexed fatal person / 0 date-assigned serious non-fatal events; September through 12 September 2 provisionally indexed fatal people / 0 date-assigned serious non-fatal events. Cumulative 3 fatal people (including 2 provisional) and 0 date-assigned non-fatal events; three on-site counted case histories and seven excluded or undated leads.

Date controls: July 18 death reporting keeps the August El Borouj arrest out of August’s fatal count. A 3 September police report does not date the alleged assault. A 1 September article dates an August 28 arrest but does not date the alleged acts; that allegation stays uncounted. Fès is assigned by an August discovery. The Benguerir report establishes an August arrest, not an August death or discovery; that suspected killing remains outside both monthly counts.

Open classification: Initial Tunfite reporting says responsibility remained unclear. A second local account alleges a husband/father killed the two victims. Both people are counted provisionally; the father’s own death is not included. A forensic or prosecutor update may alter actor-gender pairings, remove the child’s GBV classification or change the count.

Future corrections will show the date, permanent ID, prior statement, new statement, source, old and new month totals and changed gender denominator. Justice updates stay attached to the original event.

27 September 2026 · MA-GBV-2026-004–005: Two fatal people added; September fatal 2→4 and cumulative fatal 3→5.

27 September 2026 · MA-LEAD-2026-008: Undated two-survivor event added as one lead; totals unchanged.

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Publication correction · 11 October 2026

MA-GBV-2026-003: child gender disputed; no count change. MA-GBV-2026-006: October fatal 0→1. Pre-publication correction: MA-NF-2026-001 dates an arrest, not the attack; exclude pending occurrence date and territorial-scope review. October non-fatal remains 0.

Cumulative since August: 5 fatal people / 0 non-fatal events → 6 fatal people / 0 non-fatal events. Sources and individual date decisions appear in the linked histories.

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