Chefchaouen

Articles

• Morocco Denies Claims of Widespread Illegal Cannabis Cultivation
  24 December 2024, by Sylvanus

  Mohammed Ameur, Morocco’s ambassador to Brussels, reacts to allegations that Morocco turns a blind eye to 51,920 hectares of illegal cannabis crops. Allegations made by François, a young man from Anderlecht, who had stayed three times in the northern provinces, the Chefchaouen region, Ketama and the Rif mountains.
  According to the testimony collected by La Dernière Heure on November 25, François recounted having seen "cultivated to the horizon" fields of kif, on "thousands of hectares", (…)

• Israeli Actress Faces Death Threats While Filming Netflix’s ’Mary’ in Morocco
  3 January, by Sylvanus

  An Israeli actress claims to have received death threats on several occasions during the filming of the film Mary in Chefchaouen, Morocco.
  "I received messages from Moroccan profiles [on social media] saying they knew which hotel I was staying in," said Noa Cohen, the young Israeli actress who played the mother of Jesus in the Netflix film Mary during her appearance on the show Good Evening with Guy Pines on Keshet 12. She says she felt very insecure. "It didn’t make me feel very safe in (…)