In France, Moroccans are among the irregular foreigners most frequently detained in Administrative Detention Centers (CRA) for deportation. This is revealed in a joint report by five associations, including La Cimade, which are also alarmed by the increase in the average duration of detention.
The Moroccan government has revised upwards the salaries of civil servants and state agents. Younès Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills, is the bearer of this good news.
Casablanca intensifies its crusade against slums. As part of the national "Cities without Slums" program , local authorities in the Hay Hassani district have launched new operations to demolish several slums.
In France, residence permit applicants are not at the end of their troubles. Faced with the difficulty of obtaining an appointment, they resort to companies that assist them and require them to pay a large sum for services that are normally free.
Following the instructions of Jalal Benhayoun, governor of the Nouaceur province, local authorities are conducting a large-scale demolition campaign of numerous warehouses belonging to well-known personalities and large companies operating outside legal frameworks in the Casablanca-Settat region.
In compliance with a decision by the Wali of the Casablanca-Settat region, local authorities in the Hay Hassani area of Casablanca began on Friday the demolition of the famous Tafoukt café, which was under judicial liquidation.
It is now possible to build a third floor on buildings located in several neighborhoods of the Aïn Chock district in Casablanca.
The Retailleau circular pushes some prefects to compete in ingenuity to reduce the number of residence permits issued and increase expulsions. After the prefect of Isère accused of being "a factory of undocumented immigrants" , it’s now the turn of the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine to complicate the lives of undocumented foreigners applying for exceptional admission to stay (AES).
The Moroccan Ministry of Interior is working to modernize the administration and simplify access to essential administrative documents. In this regard, Abdelouafi Laftit’s department has launched a vast project to digitize civil registry records.
The Court of First Instance of Chefchaouen ruled in favor of a lawyer registered with the Tetouan Bar who had been arrested by gendarmes for speeding.
First come, first served. This is the golden rule at the Ortaffa hotel in Perpignan where, three mornings a week, dozens of foreigners try to obtain a ticket to access the prefecture’s counter in order to initiate residence permit procedures.
Slapped in the exercise of his duties by a Moroccan residing in Canada, the caid of the 7th administrative annex of Temara has been transferred to an internal service of the Ministry of Interior.