Local media reports say a man set himself on fire on Thursday in a public prosecutor’s office in southern Morocco in protest at the judiciary’s inaction on a complaint he filed.
Mashahid website said the man, a door-to-door salesman “filed a complaint against a night watchman who had hit his car, but the court took no action, pushing him to take the action” in the city of Agadir.
Suffering second degree burns, the unnamed man was taken to hospital under police escort, said another Moroccan news website, Lakome 2.
It said he was to be questioned to determine if he should face legal action.
Human rights activist Aziz Salami told AFP late on Thursday that the man was still being treated in an Agadir hospital.
In the same fashion, December 2010, a Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire and died a month later sparking a revolution in his country and the 2011 Arab Spring.
Come 2013, a door-to-door salesman in Marrakesh died after setting himself on fire to protest confiscation of his merchandise.
