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• Brussels Attack Victims to Testify Before Court as Mohamed Abrini Attends
  4 March 2023, by Sylvanus

  The victims of the Brussels attacks have requested to be heard in the presence of Mohamed Abrini and the other accused. They will give their testimony before the Brussels Assize Court in charge of trying the case.
  Mohamed Abrini will attend the testimony of the victims before the Brussels Assize Court in charge of trying the March 22, 2016 attacks in Brussels, Belga reports. This announcement was made this Friday, March 3, 2023 during a hearing before the Brussels Court of Appeal, seized (…)

• Belgian Court Bans ’Illegal’ Body Searches of Brussels Attack Suspects
  15 March 2023, by Prince

  The Court of Cassation of Brussels has confirmed the ruling of the Brussels court considering "illegal" the practices of body searches and on the knees as well as other degrading treatments suffered by Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini and other accused of the 2016 Brussels attacks.
  The Belgian justice has ruled in favor of six of the nine accused of the Brussels attacks who had denounced these bodily searches, contrary to the texts, and has therefore ordered the Belgian State to "put an (…)

• Israel Seeks Extradition from Morocco of Suspect in 2021 Nazareth Bombing
  28 June 2023, by Prince

  Israel has requested that Morocco extradite Nassim Khalibat, a 21-year-old Israeli citizen, who was arrested in Rabat in January and has been wanted since March 2022 for his alleged involvement in a bomb attack carried out in Nazareth in 2021.
  Despite the lack of an extradition agreement between Israel and Morocco, the Moroccan judiciary is said to have approved this request from the Israeli authorities, which is awaiting validation by the Ministry of Justice, reports the media Ynetnews (…)

• Brussels Attack Convicts Express Remorse at Sentencing Hearing
  14 September 2023, by Prince

  Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, Ali El Haddad Asufi, Bilal El Makhouki, and many other individuals convicted of the Brussels attacks in March 2016, expressed regrets on Monday during their trial at the Brussels court.
  Six defendants had been found guilty of the Brussels attacks, including murder, attempted murder and membership of a terrorist organization. On Monday, at the Brussels court, they expressed regrets for committing these acts. "I have questioned myself. I’m not proud to see (…)

• Convicted Paris Attack Accomplice Claims Assault by Escort, Police Investigate
  6 October 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Franco-Moroccan Jawad Bendaoud, the housing provider of the two jihadists of the November 13, 2015 attacks in France, claims to be a victim of an assault, but refuses to file a complaint. The Évry police station is conducting a flagrante delicto investigation.
  Jawad Bendaoud, victim of violence from a young woman? On Thursday, the Franco-Moroccan called the police around 9 p.m. claiming he had just been the victim of violence, reports Le Parisien. His alleged aggressor would be a (…)

• Brussels Attack Hero Speaks Out: Cleaner’s Brave Actions Saved Lives
  4 November 2023, by Sylvanus

  Khaled* saved the man’s life during the attack that occurred in Brussels on October 16 and left two dead. The forgotten hero gives a poignant testimony.
  "It was around 7 p.m. I was working upstairs, in one of the offices of the building. I was going down by elevator to the level 0 to throw away the garbage I had collected. It was the end of my day. I was walking towards the (main) door that opens onto Boulevard d’Ypres to go out and go home. [...] The other, a turnstile already blocked at (…)

• UK Warns Citizens Against Travel to Morocco and Middle East Amid Rising Tensions
  14 April 2024, by Sylvanus

  The United Kingdom has placed several countries including Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on the list of destinations that its nationals should avoid due to a high risk of attacks in this period marked by the war between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas.
  On Friday, the Foreign Office (UK Foreign Office) advised its nationals to avoid traveling to 18 countries including Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Algeria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, (…)

• Convicted Jihadist Stripped of French Citizenship After Prison Attack
  8 August 2024, by Prince

  Bilal Taghi, the Franco-Moroccan jihadist convicted in 2019 to twenty-eight years in prison for attempted murder on two prison guards in Osny (Val-d’Oise), has just been stripped of his French nationality.
  "By decree dated August 5, 2024, on the favorable opinion of the Council of State, Mr. Bilal TAGHI is deprived of French nationality," indicates a decree published on Wednesday in the Official Journal. The 32-year-old man, affiliated with Daesh, had tried to assassinate with a homemade (…)