The Rabat Police Prefecture has denied reports that police seized a semiautomatic firearm in one of the city’s parks after misleading claims that they had seized a Kalashnikov circulated widely on social media on Thursday.
The Agdal-Hassan Judicial Police launched an investigation on Thursday morning after they arrested a 17-year-old minor in possession of a plastic object that looked like a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
According to police, the misidentified plastic object was purchased from a foreign e-commerce site and was not a genuine weapon, contrary to the information that had circulated on social networks.
The minor is expected to remain in police custody for the duration of the investigation.