Rabat – The Public Prosecutor at the Casablanca Court of Appeal said an autopsy concluded that the man who jumped from a fourth-floor office in a police headquarters in Casablanca died from complications linked to multiple traumatic injuries.
On Thursday, police said a man jumped out the window of the Casablanca’s national judicial police brigade in a suicide attempt.
Police opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident. Police also ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. The man was the subject of an ongoing investigation for his alleged involvement in a criminal case.
The Casablanca public prosecutor said the autopsy was carried out by a tripartite medical commission, which concluded that the death was due to complications resulting from multiple trauma and fractures affecting the individual’s skull, facial bones, ribs, and femur, accompanied by cerebral hemorrhage.
Further investigation said the man jumped from the fourth floor of the police headquarters when an officer in charge of his investigation was preparing to execute the prosecutor’s instructions to place him in custody.
The individual pretended to stand up and headed directly toward a side window overlooking the building’s inner courtyard and went through it, the prosecutor said.
The statement said findings at the scene showed that part of a plastic strip fixed to the window frame had been torn off.
The man first hit a “stainless-steel railing in the ground-floor courtyard,” Morocco’s news agency quoted the statement as saying.
The man was then transferred to a hospital, where he received the necessary care. He succumbed to his injuries early Thursday morning.