Morocco: Court upholds sentences for Senegalese AFCON attendees

Three months after the chaotic 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Final, the Moroccan legal system has issued its verdict.

A court in the country, the Rabat Court of Appeal, has upheld the prison sentences of 18 Senegalese football fans charged over a pitch invasion during the event.

The prosecution had urged harsher penalties, but the judges decided to uphold the initial sentences handed down.

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