Instagram model ‘forced to show genitals’ to Moroccan cops after being arrested when officers ‘suspected she was trans’
A MODEL was forced to show her genitals to Moroccan cops after they suspected she was transgender – so they could decide which gendered prison to send her to.
Liziane Gutierrez spent a month in jail for filming a policeman in Marrakesh, but before she was sent to a women’s prison she was forced to open her legs to prove her gender.
The Instagram star has spoken about the “nightmare” experience, saying: “The jail was a nightmare when I first got there.
“They thought I was a transsexual, so I had to open my legs in front of two women and two men.
“I never felt so humiliated in my life.
“And they were looking up inside me like a doctor or whatever, and I was just crying.”
She continued: “After that, they think, “oh, okay, she is actually a woman.” So they put me in this prison.
“If I was a trans, I would probably have been in the male prison.”
It is not clear why Moroccan authorities thought Liziane was transgender, or if this invasive check is a common practice in the country.
The model went onto comment on the awful conditions she was subject to, recalling: “In the little room, it was supposed to be like no more than 10 girls, and it was 20 girls.
“There were bugs everywhere, flies everywhere.
“There was no ventilation, but people were smoking inside that room.. Some people stayed there for like a week. How? I have no clue.
“We had to sleep on the floor. The bathroom was just like a hole in the floor.
“There is food just like once a day, and they serve bread.
“And the temperature goes from really hot to really cold.
The influencer’s horrific ordeal began on October 30, when her bag was swiped outside her hotel with her phone and her husband Toni’s work phone inside.
But her husband still had his personal phone, so the couple tried to track their stolen devices.
The next day, a location pinged for one of the stolen phones, and they rushed to the nearest policeman to urge him to act.
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The model recalled: “We saw these guys with the police car near the hotel and we went to contact them.
“And we don’t speak Arabic, we don’t speak French, so I was trying to communicate in English and with Google Translate.
“They were just ignoring us.”
It was then that she started to record them to show people that they weren’t being taken seriously.
The couple were handcuffed and taken to the police station.
She continued: “I know that I’m not a person that is easy to deal with.
“But at that time, I did nothing wrong. I was just trying to get help.
“I was in a country that didn’t speak good English, I don’t know nobody there but my husband, so I was just trying to look for help.”
“I would rather go to North Korea 10 times again than come back to Morocco “I was more respected In North Korea than in Morocco.”
Toni was released after one day, only after he handed over the password to the phone that recorded the officers, according to reports.
Liziane is a bikini model who flaunts her figure for 1.5 million followers on Instagram.
She famously sued rapper Chris Brown after an altercation at a party in Las Vegas.
The Moroccan authorities have been contacted for comment.