The Moroccan Zorro against corruption removes his mask

In 2007, he managed to shoot with his little camera gendarmes in flagrant corruption in Targuist near the village where he lives.

The video of about ten minutes, shows motorists, bus drivers and motorcycles give money without even stopping quietly hand in hand with the police who let them pass without control.

These images, posted on a local information site were immediately sent around the world through Arab satellite channels and Western that had circulated in a loop.

"With friends from the neighbourhood, we were interviewed by the local authorities and the police. They questioned us at length and I had to deny the whole thing," Mounir Agueznay told AFP ,who revealed his identity after six years of "hiding" and dozens of other videos showing police and officials in the act of corruption.

He first agreed to give interviews openly to the Moroccan press last week, because "the character of the sniper became very well known, but he had no face." "It is time to have a face, but I will continue to expose corruption openly," says Agueznay formerly known as "Zorro".

In October 2012, Transparency International published an important investigation in which it considers that Morocco is at a "high" level of corruption in the world behind Turkey, South Africa or Senegal.

According to the NGO, 55% of business leaders surveyed believe Moroccan corruption is "current" and 53% believe that government policy is "inefficient".

The Islamist party Justice and Development (PJD) has made the fight against corruption one of its hobby horses. Recently, the country passed a law decriminalizing whistle blower cases of corruption.

But Targuist authorities, strongly suspecting Mr. Agueznay without being able to pin down, they attacked his family.

"To avenge me, they arrested my brother Radouane last October and accused him of" drug trafficking ". He was sentenced to a year in prisonbecause of "the" Targuist sniper. "

He said he was "disappointed" by the government led by the Islamist Abdelilah Benkirane.

The young man stood in Targuist as a PJD candidate in the elections of November 2011, but was not elected.

"I really believed. I thought after the PJD election slogans against corruption and for genuine transparency, things would change ...". "Unfortunately, the government has not taken any concrete steps in this direction," said he.

In an interview in October 2012 France 24, Abdelilah Benkirane stressed that the fight against corruption would take "time."

"Corruption exists in Morocco, it exists in many countries, (...), but to different degrees," he noted, referring to "a major issue because there is a sense of injustice in our population see people who get rich quickly without apparently worked accordingly. "