Intersport is preparing a new push into Morocco, twelve years after entering the market with Hicham El Guerrouj. This time, the sporting goods giant is teaming up with Moncef Belkhayat’s group to open stores from 2027, starting in Casablanca.
Spain has officially awarded a contract to maintain communications equipment at three military garrisons on islets claimed by Morocco. One of them is the Peñón de Alhucemas, just 700 metres off the Moroccan coast. Madrid has entrusted the work to a specialist company.
In Italy, a Moroccan man who had been unemployed for eight months found a pensioner’s wallet and returned it. When the man offered him a reward, Abdeljalil El Himer instead handed him his CV. His hope is to find work so he can support his family back in Morocco.
MoroccoThe Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, arrived in Morocco on October 2nd. His plane, a Boeing 747-400, landed on the tarmac of Marrakech airport.
MoroccoArrested on Tuesday evening by the brigade against criminal gangs in Salé, the drug baron "Moussa" whose ultra-luxurious wedding organized in the Zeghanghane region had caused controversy, was placed in detention in the Selouane prison, on the orders of the public prosecutor’s office in Nador.
MoroccoFollowing a complaint filed by a citizen reporting the falsification of documents and the fraud of nearly 20 million dirhams by bank employees and lawyers, the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) conducted its investigation and then forwarded the file to the prosecutor at the criminal chamber at the Court of Appeal of Casablanca.
SpainMarouane Abatouy, a 21-year-old Moroccan student, saved the life of a man of Peruvian origin who had attempted to jump off a bridge in Elche. He was honored by the municipal police for this heroic act.
MoroccoA report by the French Senate indicates that Algerians are the most penalized in the Maghreb in terms of obtaining a visa for France. Moroccans are doing better.
MoroccoFor more than a week, Morocco has been shaken by demonstrations organized by the GenZ 212 collective. The protesters denounce the billions invested in organizing the 2030 World Cup, to the detriment of the health and education sectors that are sorely lacking in resources.
MoroccoThe recent demonstrations by young people that have taken place in recent days in Morocco, initiated by the GenZ 212 collective, which have resulted in three deaths and hundreds of injuries, are worrying Spain, which estimates that an escalation of tensions would affect its trade relations with the kingdom and cause it to lose 21.178 billion euros.
SpainA young Sub-Saharan in his twenties successfully reached the city of Ceuta by paraglider from Morocco on Friday. This is an unprecedented feat and gives wings to other migrants.
MoroccoMorocco is implementing a new plan for the development of urban public transport that will cover the period 2025-2029. The Parliament was presented with this plan by the Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit.
FranceAfter more than a decade on the run, one of the alleged logisticians of the cannabis trafficking between Morocco and France was arrested this week in Paris. Nicknamed "Mounir", this 49-year-old man was a priority target for the anti-narcotics services.