Tangier Mayor Mounir Lemouri: Arrested upon return from Spain

On Monday morning, September 28, 2026, the security authorities in the city of Tangier arrested Munir al-Limouri, head of the Tangier Community Council and the leaders of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity, as soon as he arrived at Tangier Ibn Battuta airport from the Spanish city of Málaga. The arrest comes within the framework of the ongoing investigation into the falsification of electoral documents related to the legislative elections that took place on 23 September 2026 in the electoral districtof Tangier-Asila. The circumstances of the electoral fraud case are rooted in the voting office of Al-Quds School in the Qasbara neighborhood of Tangier. It is suspected that the deputy head of the office took voting papers and put them in a bag using ink different from the official ink approved, in coordination with other involved to return them later. The Public Prosecution in Tangier attributes to the detainees charges of undermining the integrity of the electoral process, forgery and participation in it, noting that five other persons had been placed in pretrial detention in the same case before the arrest of Lemouri. The file has gradually escalated since September 25, when four people were placed in custody The theory was based on suspicions of manipulation of the voting office at the Jerusalem School, before the King's Undersecretary at the Court of Appeal in Tangier announced, on the following Saturday, the arrest of five additional persons in the case of seizing a bag containing voting papers. This series of arrests culminated in the arrest of the Lemurian this morning. The next legal steps after his arrest, the Lemurian was taken to the judicial police services in Tangier, and the file is subject to the supervision of the Public Prosecution at the Court of Appeal in Tangier, provided that it is subsequently referred to the investigating judge who The Public Prosecution is expected to request that he be placed in pre-trial detention, according to identical media sources. Yesterday, WaFinkom revealed that the Lemurian was under international search warrant on charges of forgery after leaving the country, before today he returned to Morocco to be arrested immediately upon his arrival. The Ministry of Interior also sent, according to the Maghreb Arab News Agency, a central inspection committee to Tangier to identify violations that marred the electoral process in two voting offices in the district The issue has an additional political dimension, as Lemouri was leading the election campaign of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity in Tangier, in addition to his chairmanship of the Moroccan Association of Heads of Community Councils, which makes the developments of the file a subject of wide follow-up in light of the ongoing course of forming the next government and its repercussions on the map of local alliances in Tangier.