Clashes

Articles

• French MP M’jid El Guerrab Faces Criminal Trial for Violent Assault
  12 February 2020, by Bladi.net

  MP M’jid El Guerrab will be prosecuted in criminal court by the Paris prosecutor’s office. This was decided in mid-December by the judicial authority against this LREM deputy, for having assaulted the PS official, Boris Faure, with two motorcycle helmet blows in 2017.
  The violence of M’jid El Guerrab with a weapon, which led the victim to total incapacity to work for a week, constitutes an offense for which the defendant faces a sentence of up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 (…)

• Fatal Stabbing at Moroccan Farm Party Leaves One Dead, Three Arrested
  3 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  A well-lubricated evening that started in a good mood ended in tragedy. While they had gathered to party in a farm located in Lqliâa, in the Agadir region, a misunderstanding that broke out between four friends ended with the death of one of them.
  The facts reported by Aujourd’hui Le Maroc date back to the night of Thursday, October 24 to Friday, October 25, when four friends gathered on a farm for an evening of reunion and relaxation.
  At first, everything seemed to be going well. (…)

• Deadly Air Strike on Libyan Migrant Center Kills 44, Including North African Nationals
  3 July 2019, by Kamal

  An air raid targeted, on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, a migrant detention center near the Libyan capital, Tripoli. 44 people were killed, including a Moroccan and a Tunisian. A hundred refugees were also injured.
  In the suburbs of Tripoli, 44 migrants were killed and 134 were injured, following the carnage caused by an air strike launched by the troops of Marshal Khalifa Haftar. A Moroccan and a Tunisian were among the victims of this massacre.
  The pro-Haftar forces did not claim the air (…)

• Violent Clashes Erupt in Rabat Slum Over Relocation Plan
  28 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  Residents of the El Garaa douar, one of the oldest slums in Rabat, clashed with the police. This confrontation, filmed and posted on Youtube on August 26, 2019, follows the decision of the local authorities to relocate them to the Aïn Aouda region, on the outskirts of the capital.
  As part of the "Rabat City of Light" project, the government plans to rehouse the residents of this neighborhood to the outskirts of the capital. They are offered apartments worth 100,000 dirhams or plots of (…)

• Viral Video of Gunfire Falsely Attributed to Tangier, Actually From Lebanon
  19 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  The video widely shared on social networks showing clashes between police and drug traffickers turned out to be false in terms of the location of the events.
  An authorized source from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) states that these shots were not fired in [Morocco].
  In reality, the same source points out, it is a video posted on YouTube on November 14. It relates to a clash between different factions, which occurred in the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
  These (…)

• Belgian Green Party Leader Denies Anti-Semitism Accusation Over Palestinian Post
  14 May 2021, by Jérôme

  The Belgian League against Anti-Semitism (LBCA) accused on Wednesday the Belgian of Moroccan origin Rajae Maouane of inciting "anti-Semitic hatred" for having shared a photo accompanied by a song about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. False! retorts the co-president of Ecolo, "deeply hurt".
  In Belgium, political parties have not remained indifferent to the acts of violence of recent days, opposing Israelis and Palestinians. Several parties in the coalition have condemned Israel, going so (…)

• Fugitive Drug Trafficker Arrested in Morocco After Attacking Police with Pitbull
  25 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  A madman who attacked gendarmes using a pitbull was arrested in the Béni Mellal region on Thursday, August 22, 2019. He was the subject of 20 arrest warrants nationwide for drug and moonshine trafficking.
  A special defendant! The case the Royal Gendarmerie agents had to deal with last Thursday. It gave them a hard time.
  Under the weight of 20 national arrest warrants for drug and moonshine, also called ’’mahia’’, trafficking, the 30-year-old repeat offender used a system of caves around (…)

• Prison Officials Deny Reports of Gang Violence at Kénitra Facility in Morocco
  7 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  No clashes between two rival gangs in the Kénitra prison. This is the false information that the prison administration is trying to refute. It provides a formal denial of the rumors circulated by certain media reporting "serious injuries resulting from knife fights, lasting two days, between minor detainees".
  It is rather a dispute between four inmates housed in the same ward, which resulted in two injured. They immediately received the necessary care at the institution’s infirmary. (…)

• Deadly Violence Erupts After Moroccan Soccer Match: 1 Killed, 5 Injured
  26 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  Following a football match between Wydad de Casablanca and AS FAR de Rabat, clashes between supporters left one dead and five injured.
  The victory of AS FAR de Rabat was not to the liking of the supporters of the Wydad de Casablanca club, beaten by a score of 1-3, as part of a Coupe du Trône match. It was in this context that a group of Wydad de Casablanca supporters intercepted a vehicle transporting AS FAR de Rabat fans, throwing stones at it, before the situation degenerated into (…)

• Barcelona Knife Attack Leaves Moroccan Teen in Critical Condition
  8 November 2019, by Kamal

  An investigation has been opened by the Spanish police, following the violent dispute that occurred earlier this week on Boulevard Saint Bier in Barcelona. A Moroccan teenager was seriously stabbed.
  Very well known for the daily violent clashes that take place there between undocumented minors of different nationalities, this avenue in Barcelona was this time the scene of a knife attack.
  A Moroccan was seriously injured in a general brawl started by young people of the same age, leading (…)