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Abdellatif Hammouchi ( ar, عبد اللطيف الحموشي; born 1966 in Taza, Morocco) is the head of the Moroccan national police directorate, the
Officer of the 
Officer of the 
Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard of Spain (2019):
General Directorate for National Security
The General Directorate for National Security ( ar, المديرية العامة للأمن الوطني ''al-mudīriyya l-ʿāmma li-l-ʾamni l-waṭaniyy'') is the authoritative and main State police body of Morocco. The Sûreté Nationale is t ...
or DGST ( French: ''Direction Générale de la Sureté Nationale'') as well as head of secret services, the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance or ''DGST'' (Formerly known as the DST, french: Direction de surveillance du territoire).
He is also an advisor to Mohammed VI Muhammad VI may refer to:
* Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI (1868–1932), sultan of the Maldives from 1893 to 1902
* Mehmed VI (1861–1926), sultan of Ottoman Empire, from 1918 to 1922
* Mohammed VI of Morocco
Mohammed VI ( ar, محمد الساد ...
on terrorism-related affairs.
Early life
He graduated from the University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah in Fes and joined the police as an officer in 1993. AfterHamidou Laanigri
Hamidou Laanigri ( ar, حميدو لعنيݣري) (born 1939 near Meknes) is a Moroccan general and former head of the intelligence service of the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior. Laanigri was often accused of acts of torture in relation to the ...
left the DST a day after the Casablanca bombings of 16 May 2003 and was appointed as the Director of the General Directorate for National Security
The General Directorate for National Security ( ar, المديرية العامة للأمن الوطني ''al-mudīriyya l-ʿāmma li-l-ʾamni l-waṭaniyy'') is the authoritative and main State police body of Morocco. The Sûreté Nationale is t ...
, he was replaced by his deputy Ahmed Harrari, who was replaced by Hammouchi in December 2005.
Controversies
On 20 February 2014, while Hammouchi was attending a meeting with French officials in Paris, he was summoned by a French judge to testify on torture cases after multiple complaints by torture victims, such asZakaria Moumni Zakaria Moumni ( ar, زكرياء مومني ); born 4 February 1980 is a former kickboxer who was detained by the Moroccan authorities between September 2010 and February 2012.
Torture incident
According to Moumni he was arrested in September 20 ...
, against him and his organisation. His name has been often cited in connection to secret detention centres in Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...
such as the Temara interrogation centre
The Temara interrogation center, also known as Temara secret detention center ( ar, معتقل تمارة السري), is an extrajudicial detainment and secret prison facility of Morocco located within a forested area of Rabat, Morocco. It is ope ...
and the Ain Aouda secret prison
Ain Aouda secret prison is a suspected black site, torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogational torture, interrogation for infor ...
.
In Morocco lawsuits against the DST and Hammouchi in connection to the death of detainees under torture have been rejected for lack of evidence.
In April 2011, Moroccan journalist Rachid Niny was imprisoned after he published sensitive details about Abdellatif Hammouchi.
In 2011, Hammouchi received an Alaouite Wissam decoration from Mohammed VI in recognition of his efforts for maintaining security.
Decorations
* Officer of the Order of the Throne
The Order of the Throne (Arabic: ''Wissam al-Arch'', French: ''Ordre du Trône'') is a state decoration of the Kingdom of Morocco awarded for distinguished services of a civil or military nature. The Order was instituted on 16 May 1963 by King Ha ...
(2011)
* Officer of the Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...
of France (2016)
* Grand-Cross of the Order of Merit of the Civil Guard of Spain (2019):
See also
* Fouad Ali El Himma * Yassine Mansouri *Abdelkader Belliraj
Abdelkader Belliraj ( ar, عبد القادر بليرج, ; born 1957, Nador) is a Moroccan-Belgian citizen who was found guilty in 2009 of arms smuggling and planning terrorist attacks in Morocco.
Petty criminal in the 1980s
In the 1980s, he w ...
References
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