A Moroccan television program has been suspended for three weeks by the governing body of the audiovisual sector as a punishment for the macho comments of a guest that justified the fact of beating his wife, celebrated with laughter by the animator of the program.
The High Authority of Audiovisual Communication (HACA, French acronym) issued a statement suspending the Kotbi Night program of the Chada TV network because the announcer "did not react firmly and resolutely to the explicit violent speech of the guest; on the contrary, (adopted) a playful and playful tone. "
The words of the guest, Adil Miloudi, a famous singer of the genre "rai", on a program last July 3 caused a great scandal at the time: "Who does not hit his wife, is not a man," he said , after telling in a pitched tone an incident he had had in Spain with the police precisely because he had beaten his wife during a trip to the neighboring country.
The animator of the program never shaved his words, but, with laughter and jokes, asked him to repeat his words.
The words expressed in that program - according to HACA - are "an express incitement to violence, presented in a positive way as an attribute of virility and a manifestation of affection, and even as a recommended behavior to consolidate the conjugal bond."
In Morocco, a popular saying goes like this: "Hit your wife; if you don't know why, she does," and although sexist violence is rooted in society, a law enacted in 2018 specifically penalizes all violence against the woman, even the one exercised inside the home by the husband.
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