While Senegal organized a press conference in Paris on Thursday to explain the aftermath of the giant imbroglio around the final of the African Cup of Nations, won by the Lions of Teranga but ultimately canceled by the CAF appeal jury, Morocco was quick to react. And not only half, by threatening to demand that the trophy be sequestered and by warning Senegal of possible legal reprisals if they were to present it as announced at the Stade de France this Saturday.
It is through Me Mourad Eladditioni, president of the lawyers’ club in Morocco, who published a press release to defend nothing more and nothing less than the “end of thugocracy on African lawns”, that Morocco advanced its pawns on the chessboard of big nonsense.
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“This morning we sent two formal notices to the Stade de France operating company as well as to the GL Events group. By lending their assistance to a ceremony based on a revoked title, these entities engage their direct responsibility, he indicates. The Senegalese Football Federation had announced for March 28 at the Stade de France, a ceremony to present the CAN trophy. This celebration is based on a title from which the FSF was officially stripped by international sporting authorities. »
“By a final decision rendered on March 17, 2026, the CAF Appeal Jury reallocated the title to Morocco. In the absence of a suspensive decision from the CAS, the exhibition of this trophy constitutes a usurpation of title and a manifestly unlawful disturbance Art. 835 of the CPC, specifies Me Eladditioni. Any continuation of the event will give rise to proceedings for damages on the basis of Art. 1240 of the Civil Code (tort liability). We reserve the right to request the judicial sequestration of the trophy from hour to hour (Art. 1961 of the Civil Code). In the absence of a conventional or legal title to detention, the subject of the dispute must be placed in the custody of a court commissioner. »
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As a reminder, after having placed the trophy under guard in a secure military base, the Senegalese Football Federation appealed CAF’s decision on Wednesday before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It remains to be seen whether Morocco’s threats will make the Senegalese flinch and push them to keep the trophy in the locker room on Saturday, near Saint-Denis.
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