AFP
29 September 2016
Rabat (AFP) - Police raided a market in Morocco on
Thursday after rumours spread on social media that stores there were selling
inflatable sex dolls, which are banned in the conservative Muslim country.
Social media users -- primarily men -- had spread a
rumour that the dolls were on sale in Derb Omar, an immense wholesale market in
Casablanca.
On Thursday, two local newspapers ran full-page
stories on the rumours.
"Sex dolls invade the markets," was the
headline in the Arabic-language daily Asabah.
It noted that "many doubt the truth of the
rumours". […]
