Saturday, December 8, 2007

Moroccan prisoner smuggles woman into his cell

he convinced guards it was a bag of clothes
A Moroccan jailed for terrorism offences smuggled a woman into his prison cell in a large plastic bag and spent six hours with her there before being caught, media reports said Thursday.The prisoner is serving time in a Casablanca jail for belonging to the radical Islamist movement Salafia Jihadia and engaging in "terrorist activities," newspapers said.The young woman came to see the prisoner on Tuesday and he smuggled her from the visiting room into his cell in a bag that he persuaded guards contained clothes, according to Assabah newspaper.

The Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki paper said the woman spent six hours there before the pair were caught, adding that the prisoner was subsequently transferred to another jail in Casablanca.An official from the Ain Borja prison confirmed "the discovery by guards of a woman inside the prison" but said the media reports contained "inaccuracies". He told AFP in particular that she was only in the prisoner's cell for an hour.An inquiry has been launched into how the incident, thought to be the first of its kind, could occur

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