Larisse HoussouYoussef Zaroui

Mehdi Sekkouri Alaoui and Youssef Zaroui

Nationality
Morrocan
Title of the article
On the Targuist sniper’s trail
Name of media
Telquel magazine
Country
Morocco

In 2003, Mehdi Sekkouri Alaoui graduated from the University of Montreal with a degree in communication and political science, after which he spent a year at the Political Science institute of Aix-en-Provence. Since 2005, he has been working as a journalist for Telquel magazine in Morocco.

In July 2007, Morocco discovered Targuist, a small town of 12 000 inhabitants, in a video posted on Youtube.com by an anonymous user under the pseudonym “Sniper”. Armed with his camcorder, this “Robinhood” of the web filmed policemen in acts of corruption during a road block. Within a few weeks the video was viewed by 500,000 surfers, and new images continued to appear on the internet. Mehdi Sekkouri Alaoui's investigation report revealed who was hiding behind this mysterious “Sniper”.

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