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Congolese Teacher Pushed Out of Moving Police Van in Morocco, Dies

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, D.R. of Congo, Morocco, Breaking News, Ethnicity & Race, Human Rights, International Relations, Law, Migration & Immigration

The death of Toussaint-Alex Mianzoukouta, a french teacher in Tanger is symptomatic of increasing brutality towards sub Saharan immigrants from the Moroccan police, Afrik Online reports [1] [fr]. Mianzoukouta was not given the opportunity to  present his immigration documents before he was taken into the van, the report says. He died from multiple head injuries and leaves behind a wife and two children.