The CAN 2025 final between Senegal and Morocco continues to cause a stir, well beyond football. While the case remains open before the disciplinary jury of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), a new affair, with political connotations, has just emerged in Morocco.
According to several consistent media sources, eighteen Senegalese supporters, arrested on the sidelines of the final played in Rabaton January 18, began a hunger strike in the Moroccan prisons where they are detained. A radical gesture, motivated by a deep feeling of injustice.
In a message addressed to their lawyer, Me Patrick Kabousupporters explain to wait “since January 18 to know what they are accused of”. They claim to have been questioned by the police “in French and Arabic”languages that they do not master, specifying that they do not understand “than Wolof”. Not having been allowed to give their version of the facts, they decided to resort to a hunger strike at the risk of their lives.
“Since they deny us our right to justice, we have decided from today to begin a continuous fast in prayer and meditation, until the day when Moroccan justice will give us the chance to express ourselves”they declared this Friday, February 6, 2026.
The eighteen supporters were prosecuted, among other things, for hooliganism, after a first expeditious hearing. A heavy criminal qualification which includes alleged acts of violence, in particular against the police, damage to sports infrastructure and throwing projectiles. Their trial was again postponed until February 12, this time due to a strike by lawyers at the Morocco.
This affair is a continuation of a particularly stormy finale. On January 18, at the stadium Rabatthe Senegal won 1-0 after extra time, at the end of a tense match punctuated by incidents. More than two weeks later, and while the CAF has already delivered its conclusions, sanctioning the two federations indiscriminately, this affair, which is added to many others, further splashes the memory of this tournament sold, a few weeks ago, to the public as the best ever organized in the history of African football. Just that!
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