From Editorial Office to Den of Sexual Exploitation: Bouachrine Plays the Victim to Escape His Past
Tawfik Bouachrine, instead of choosing silence or offering an apology after his release from prison due to a royal pardon, decided to re-enter the scene with a wave of articles and videos aimed at a clear goal: polishing his image and seeking revenge against those who put an end to his sexual escapades that tarnished the profession of journalism and harmed his female victims.
Bouachrine believes he can deceive public opinion once again, just as he had once thought his position as the director of a suspiciously funded newspaper would grant him eternal immunity. However, he overlooked that the era of false immunities is over. Society has come to understand the difference between someone who is pursued for their opinion and someone who is convicted for proven crimes against employees who found themselves in a professional “brothel,” voiceless in the face of the arrogance of a man who turned his office into a space for sexual enslavement, masked under a shiny title: “Independent Journalism.”
Today, he produces podcast episodes not to speak the truth, but to reconstruct a new narrative in which he transforms himself from a convict into a “thinker,” and from a harasser into a critic of authority. He recounts distorted events, surrounded by dramatic music, as if they were episodes of self-purification that carry no trace of remorse, only disguised frustration with a justice he could only evade through pardon.
The danger lies not only in his attempts to convince people that he is a victim but also in his complete disregard for the suffering of his victims. We have not heard a single word of acknowledgment from him. We have not read an honest reflective sentence. Instead, we see him returning through the gateway of political victimhood that has become a refuge for all moral failures.
This moral decline must not go unchallenged. For a perpetrator to become an influencer of public opinion without any symbolic accountability or critical review is an insult to the dignity of the victims, a blow to the credibility of journalism, and yet another exploitation of media platforms to recycle his downfall.
Bouachrine has not learned his lesson. He still bets on a short-memory audience, an easily manipulated press, and self-regulating bodies that have lost their critical sense. But the truth remains stronger than fabricated narratives. Those who have betrayed their profession and violated the trust of the women under their authority have no right to speak of power and justice. Rather, they should be silent, or apologize, or confront their own memories first.
