Cafe shooting in Marrakesh

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• Moroccan Customs Seizes Assets of "La Crème" Café Owner in Money Laundering Probe
  20 October 2020, by Kamal

  The Moroccan Customs Administration has seized the property of the owner of the "La Crème" café. Mustapha Fechtali, this Rif entrepreneur targeted in 2017 during the Marrakech shootout, was buried under a mountain of cash.
  According to the newspaper AlBayane, the real estate assets of the nicknamed Mous were not limited to the city of Marrakech alone. The man had 3 villas in the chic neighborhoods of the ochre city, an apartment in the "Yacht" residence, on the Casablanca corniche, and (…)

• Marrakech Cafe Owner Faces Hefty Customs Fine for Undeclared Foreign Currency
  8 October 2020, by Kamal

  Relying on Article 258 of the Customs Code, the Administration claims to be entitled to file an exceptional appeal against the judgments rendered at first instance, even if it had not participated in the hearing.
  To justify the amounts requested, customs referred to the statements of the defendants during the judicial proceedings. The owner of the "La Crème" cafe had acknowledged having brought in 60 million dirhams in foreign currency from the Netherlands, without making a customs (…)

• Marrakech Café Shooting Trial Postponed to December 22, Defense Seeks Time
  26 November 2020, by Sylvanus

  The trial of the defendants in the case of the shooting at the "La Crème" café in [Marrakech] has been postponed to December 22. This is the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Ochre City.
  The court made this decision in order to give the defense lawyers enough time to communicate with their clients who are being prosecuted at liberty and to summon them as well as the detained defendants at the Oudaya prison so that they are present at the next hearing.
  Last July, the Criminal (…)

• Marrakech Café Shooting Appeal Trial Postponed to March 30
  25 February 2021, by Sylvanus

  The appeal trial of the defendants in the case of the shooting at the La Crème café in Marrakech has been postponed to March 30. This is the decision made by the criminal chamber of the Marrakech Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
  The Court of Appeal postponed this case to allow the lawyers to prepare the defense and summon a sworn interpreter, reports Al Massae. In total, 19 people involved in the commissioned murder of the "La Crème" café were tried before the court of first instance in (…)

• Marrakech Café Shooting Trial Delayed to February, 16 Defendants Await Proceedings
  8 January 2019, by Said

  New developments in the case of the shooting at Café la Crème in Marrakech. The Court of Appeal has just postponed the examination of the case of the persons prosecuted for "premeditated murder with a firearm" to February 5.
  The postponement is to allow "the defense to prepare its pleadings following the decision of the court to insert a new file in the main case in which three other defendants are being prosecuted," reports the MAP.
  In total, 16 people are being prosecuted in this (…)

• Marrakech Café Shooting Trial Begins: 16 Accused, Including Dutch Suspects
  26 February 2019, by Said

  After several months of investigation and numerous postponements of hearings, the trial of the perpetrators of the shooting at the Café la Crème in Marrakech will open this Tuesday at the court of first instance in the ochre city.
  In total, 16 people are being prosecuted in this case, including two Dutch nationals, accused of being the shooters, as well as their accomplices including the manager and owner of the café, reports the Arabic-language newspaper Al Akhbar.
  In October 2017, (…)

• Dutch Duo Sentenced to Death in Marrakech Café Shooting Case
  27 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  At the end of this controversial "La Crème" café affair that shook the ochre city, the verdict of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Marrakech did not mince words. Indeed, on the night of Friday, July 26 to Saturday, July 27, 2019, this court ordered the death penalty against the two Dutch murderers.
  Death penalty for Robles Martinez, aged 26, and for Gregoria Semeril, 31 years old. This is the verdict pronounced, after several months of trial against the two Dutch murderers (…)

• Marrakech Café Shooting Case Reopened by Moroccan High Court
  6 February, by Sylvanus

  The case of the shooting at the "La Crème" café, which occurred on November 2, 2017 in Marrakech, has seen a new development.
  The Court of Cassation in Rabat has accepted the appeal filed in the case of the shooting at the "La Crème" café, which occurred in Marrakech on November 2, 2017. As a result, this case has been referred to the criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal in Casablanca. The latter has decided to postpone the examination of the accused’s file to the second day of the (…)

• Morocco Seeks Extradition of Suspect in 2017 Marrakech Café Shooting
  24 September 2021, by Laila

  Morocco has made a new extradition request for Achraf B., accused of being linked to the shooting at the La Créme café in Marrakech in 2017. The suspect is currently incarcerated in the Netherlands.
  Currently on trial in the Marengo case in the Netherlands, Achraf B. could be extradited to Morocco, according to Dutch sources. His lawyer believes that this is not an option, as Morocco is, according to him, accused of systematically torturing detainees.
  In the Marengo case, in which (…)

• Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty for 8 in Marrakech Café Shooting Case
  21 March 2022, by Sylvanus

  The public prosecutor has requested the death penalty against eight individuals already convicted at first instance for their involvement in the shooting at the "La Crème" café in Marrakech.
  In total, eight people risk the death penalty because the justice system accuses them of clearly knowing about the shooting that occurred on November 2, 2017 at the "La Crème" café in Marrakech, which cost the life of a young medical intern at the university hospital in the ochre city, shot by (…)