Belgian women volunteers to leave Morocco after beheading threat for wearing ‘flimsy’ shorts
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Three young Belgian women are to return home from volunteer work in Morocco after being threatened with beheading for wearing shorts, the trip’s organisers confirmed.
A local schoolteacher complained about them working in shorts on a construction site where they were helping to build an access road in the village of Adar in southern Morocco during the summer holidays.
He later called on social media for their beheading and a Moroccan MP criticised their “flimsy” clothing.
The teacher was arrested on Monday and will be prosecuted for “incitement to terrorist acts”, Moroccan police said.
The case comes a month after three Moroccan men were sentenced to death for beheading two Scandinavian women on a hiking trip in the High Atlas Mountains in 2018.