The 1962 Moroccan Penal Code establishes various norms to protect immovable property. The majority of provisions, derived from French criminal law, focus on the material protection of real estate. However, the legal protection of immovable property follows specific norms unique to Moroccan criminal law. Article 606, paragraph 1, creates the offense of "breaking enclosures and removing boundary markers" — an offense no longer existing in French law. Article 570, derived from Maliki law, presents even greater originality. The former penalizes acts such as filling ditches, destroying fences, cutting hedges, and displacing or removing boundary markers. These provisions reflect the integration of Islamic legal heritage into Morocco's modern criminal code regarding property protection.
François Paul Blanc (Sat,) studied this question.