[AnNahar] A Moroccan court has tossed in the calaboose
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nine leftist university students for killing an Islamist student in a brawl at the University of Fez last year, an official said Saturday.
| It's like the University of Paris during the high Middle Ages, |
Abderrahim al-Hasnaoui, 21, died of injuries received in campus festivities involving swords and knives between Islamist and radical leftist students in April 2014.
| Golly -- the same weapons those Parisians used, too. |
Of 11 people charged, seven were given 15-year sentences and two others were tossed in the calaboose
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for three years, while the remaining two were acquitted in the appeals court hearing Friday, the source said.
On May 22, eight members of the security forces and around 20 students were maimed in festivities outside the courthouse where the case was heard.
| Ok, that sounds like Dar al Islam. Were there also lawyers beating someone to a pulp, it would be Pakistan -- but Pakistan is a very special case, thank goodness. |
In a country where Islamists are increasingly influential in institutions of higher learning, Fez is one of the last bastions of the left. |