InvestigationIn the wake of the imprisonment in France of Jacques Bouthier, the ex-boss of Assu 2000, a major insurance brokerage company, “Le Monde” met Moroccan employees who testified to the sexual violence imposed by the CEO.
That evening, on the cornice of Tangier, Fatima (all the first names of the victims have been changed) is afraid. Around her, very young children are trying to sell packs of tissues for a few dirhams. The bigger ones offer sweets. Adults, snails. Closer to her, a limp scarred-faced man. “Can we go there?, she worries. My lawyer warned me, the police in Tangier warned me, they can pay a tramp and attack me, and they will say that they had nothing to do with it, that he was just crazy. » The 26-year-old young woman hurries on the northernmost seafront of Morocco, which she walked before, carefree, nose to the wind.
Fatima puts masks on her face and caps on her head so as not to be recognized on the street. She looks over her shoulder, circles the block to make sure she isn’t being followed. Her phone rings all the time with numbers she doesn’t know – she doesn’t answer them anymore.
Since May 21 and the indictment and imprisonment of Jacques Bouthier, the former CEO of the French insurance brokerage company Assu 2000 – he resigned on May 24 – for “trafficking in minor human beings, rape of minors and participation in a criminal association with a view to committing kidnapping or kidnapping in an organized gang” with five other people, Fatima tells the same story three, five, ten times a day to her relatives, lawyers, police , to the Moroccan and French media. That of a young Moroccan victim of sexual harassment by one of the great fortunes of France, that of a call center girl who believed in a better life by joining the battalions of specialized workers in the Tangier tertiary sector.
The Technopark café in Tangier hums like a university cafeteria. The students huddled behind their laptops absentmindedly follow their video lessons. Girls hide to smoke. When she was doing her degree in environmental sciences, Nour was like them. Like hundreds of thousands of young Moroccan graduates, she has not found a job. She crossed the street – she lived opposite the Assu 2000 building in Tangier – to become a call center girl. “In Morocco, girls who smoke and those who work in call centers have a bad reputation. It is said that they are delinquent, that they are girls of bad life, whereas, for them, working is above all a means of emancipation.she poses as context.
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