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| "We are all crushed and each one of us is crushed in a different way. #We_Are_All_Mouhcine #Crush_The_Hell_Out_Of_Him" says this cartoon. |
The death of a fish seller in Morocco has sparked rare demonstrations of outrageon the streets and online this weekend.
Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was crushed to death in a garbage truck after he apparently leapt into it to retrieve stocks of swordfish the police had confiscated.
Images of his body in the truck have been been shared hundreds of times on social media and, although it is not clear how he was killed, many are accusing the police of ordering the truck driver to deliberately crush him.
The hashtag #Crush_The_Hell_Out_Of_Him has been tweeted more than 24,000 times over the weekend.
The incident has angered many over what they saw as an abuse of power and injustice. Other hashtags such as #We_Are_All_Mouhcine have also been shared thousands of times.
"This is not a scene from a horror movie, this is a Moroccan citizen being crushed by a garbage truck," said one popular tweet of the photo.
"Why would they crush the fish in the first place?" asked one user. "To burn his heart over his lost merchandise? It should have at least been given to charity."
Fikri has been described by many Twitter users as Morocco's "Bouazizi", in reference to the Tunisian fruit seller whose suicide sparked protests prior to the Tunisian uprising in 2011.
The prime minister, Abdelilah Benkirane, has said he will investigate the incident and will hold those responsible to account.
Source:BBC News
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