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• Cycling Champion Remco Evenepoel’s Wife Opens Up About Their Love Story and Life Together
  27 April 2023, by Prince

  Moroccan Oumaïma "Oumi" Rayane is the wife of Belgian Remco Evenepoel, world cycling champion. The two lovebirds, aged 23, are living a unique love story, despite the occasional absences of the athlete for professional reasons.
  Remco Evenepoel and Oumaïma "Oumi" Rayane grew up on the same street in Schepdaal, but became friends at the age of 17, before getting engaged and then married last year. "A cyclist was not at all my type, but a click happened. A deep connection developed between (…)

• Antwerp Court Seizes $400 Million from Fugitive Drug Lord in Major Cocaine Trafficking Case
  13 April, by Sylvanus

  The Antwerp court has sentenced in absentia Omar Govers alias "Patje Haemers", one of the city’s most notorious drug-related criminals, whose accomplices are Belgian-Moroccans Othman El Ballouti or Nordin El Hajjioui, to a heavy prison sentence for importing more than 26 tons of cocaine.
  An admirer of the famous gangster Patrick Haemers, who had notably kidnapped Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants, Omar Govers takes the nickname "Patje Haemers". In 15 years, he made a name for himself (…)

• Belgian-Moroccan Suspect in Child Kidnapping Case Vanishes Before Trial
  11 April, by Sylvanus

  While he is due to appear before the Tongeren Assize Court on April 22, a 32-year-old Belgian-Moroccan has disappeared from the radar. This man accused of kidnapping a child is untraceable in Tongeren.
  Will Abderrahman Laktit be present at his trial for kidnapping on April 22 before the Tongeren Assize Court? Nothing is certain. "We think he is on the run," it is said. The units went to Abderrahman’s home and noticed that there was no one there. The thirtysomething is accused of a double (…)

• Cycling Star Remco Evenepoel Weds Childhood Friend and Belgian Influencer Oumi Rayane
  10 January 2023, by Prince

  Cyclist Remco Evenepoel married last year to Oumaïma "Oumi" Rayane, a Belgian influencer of Moroccan origin who is actually his childhood friend.
  The 22-year-old woman has followed Evenepoel’s, also 22 years old, sports career from the beginning and has always supported him. The two have been a couple since 2017, but their relationship has not always been harmonious, reveals Offside, revealing that Remco and Oumi had to separate in August 2019, the athlete having decided to move to Monaco (…)

• Belgian Prosecutors Probe Moroccan Ambassador in EU Parliament Corruption Scandal
  19 December 2022, by Sylvanus

  Abderrahim Atmoun, a former MP, current Moroccan ambassador to Poland, is in the sights of the Belgian justice system following the corruption scandal that is shaking the European Parliament.
  Abderrahim Atmoun is cited in the corruption scandal rocking the European Parliament. He would be involved in a network of bribes to parliamentarians that the Belgian prosecutor’s office is investigating, reports the daily Le Soir.be. He owes his diplomatic successes, notably the agricultural and (…)

• Spanish Police Intercept Stolen Luxury Vehicles Bound for Morocco
  14 May 2024, by Prince

  The Spanish police intercepted at the port of Algeciras high-end vehicles stolen in Europe that were about to be transported to Morocco.
  The stolen off-road vehicles from France and Italy were seized after five people tried to transfer them to Morocco via the port of Algeciras, the Spanish police said. The market value of these luxury vehicles is estimated at more than 150,000 euros, they added.
  The agents also seized another off-road vehicle and two Buggy-type vehicles stolen in (…)

• Cyclist’s Wife Battles Crowd to Congratulate Tour de France Stage Winner
  12 July 2024, by Prince

  Oumaima Oumi Rayane, the wife of Belgian cyclist Remco Evenepoel, spoke of the difficulties she encountered in congratulating her husband, who won the first stage of the Tour de France on Friday.
  Oumi followed the race in the waiting room and was proud of her husband’s achievement. But addressing him with a word of congratulation for this victory was a real obstacle course, she recounts in a video posted on Instagram. In the images, we see the Moroccan woman crossing a crowd of people, (…)

• Brussels Airport Sees 18% Passenger Surge as Moroccan and European Travel Booms
  14 May 2023, by Sylvanus

  Morocco, Spain, Italy and Germany were among the 10 most visited destinations by Belgians last month. As a result: Brussels Airport (Brussels-Zaventem) sees its attendance increase by 18% in April 2023 compared to the same period last year.
  The number of passengers passing through Brussels-Zaventem airport last April stands at 1,852,523 passengers, an increase of 18% compared to April 2022. According to the explanations of the airport of the Belgian capital, the Easter holidays in Flemish (…)

• Disabled Moroccan Immigrant Faces Homelessness in Belgium After Asylum Rejections
  2 April, by Sylvanus

  Arrived in Belgium where he hoped to change his life, a Moroccan with a disability faces a harsh reality.
  Yassine* left Morocco in 2016 for Belgium, in the hope of building a better life, because "the care of people with disabilities is not, he says, what it should be" in the kingdom. But things are not going as he had hoped. So far, he has not received any valid residence permit in Belgium. "I have already filed several applications, but they have all been rejected," he confided.
  For (…)

• Morocco Counters Paternity Claim Against Late King Hassan II with Fraud Complaint
  16 January 2023, by Ginette

  After 18 years of calm, the case of the alleged "hidden daughter" of King Hassan II resurfaced with a paternity suit filed in Belgium on one side, and on the other, a complaint filed by Morocco for "fraud".
  In 2005, Jane Benzaquen alias Hedva Selaa, an Israeli woman, claimed to be the daughter that Prince Heir Moulay Hassan, who became Hassan II, would have had. She would be the result of a liaison between Anita - the niece of Léon, a former Moroccan Minister of Posts and (…)