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• Spain Delays Repatriation of Moroccan Worker’s Body, Demands Further Tests
  12 February 2022, by Prince

  The Spanish judicial police require more thorough tests before the court authorizes the repatriation of the body of Taofik Belassal, the young Moroccan seasonal worker who died in a fire that occurred in Huelva in December 2019.
  The young man’s family has already appealed to the Spanish court three times to order the repatriation of his body. Without success. The Moroccan police even confirmed Taofik’s identity to the Spanish judicial police in November, after conducting a DNA test with (…)

• Controversial ’Smart Cemetery’ Project in Morocco Sparks Cost Concerns
  25 December 2023, by Said

  The first intelligent and secure cemetery could soon see the light of day in the Casablanca region. But its suspicious and exorbitant cost is causing controversy.
  A consortium of local authorities managing the Rahma cemetery in Dar Bouazza near Casablanca has announced the signing of an agreement for the implementation of the "first intelligent and secure cemetery" in the region, reports the site al3omk. This project, estimated at more than 37 million dirhams, provides for the (…)

• Morocco’s King Mohammed VI Mourns Queen Elizabeth II as ’Special Friend’ of Nation
  9 September 2022, by Said

  Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, King Mohammed VI sent a message of condolences to Prince Charles, now Charles III, King of the United Kingdom.
  Addressing the new king, the Moroccan sovereign states that he learned with "deep sadness of the passing of Your mother, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. May she rest in peace," expressing in His name, and in that of the Royal Family and the Moroccan people, to HM King Charles III, to all the members of the august royal family and to the (…)

• Moroccan Man with Violent History Arrested in Amsterdam for Avignon Murder
  12 January, by Sylvanus

  Fouad L., a 34-year-old man from Morocco, is the main suspect in the murder of Barbara, a 24-year-old woman found dead in December in her studio in Avignon. Arrested in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he should soon be extradited to France where he will be tried.
  What is Fouad L.’s profile? This man is known to the police. He has a heavy criminal record: 17 convictions for serious offenses such as carrying weapons, death threats, aggravated violence, kidnapping, sequestration with acts of (…)

• Tragic Accident: 3 Workers Die in Moroccan Wastewater Canal Near Casablanca
  20 May 2019, by Said

  Drama in Bouskoura, in the Casablanca region, where three people died, apparently by asphyxiation.
  The regional command of Civil Protection cited by the Map indicates that three workers died "by asphyxiation in a wastewater canal located in the green area of Bouskoura".
  The three victims were carrying out maintenance work, continues the same source, according to which the bodies were recovered by the Civil Protection elements.
  As in such situations, an investigation has been opened by (…)

• Moroccan Activist Arrested on Arrival for Mother’s Funeral, Faces Immigration Charges
  18 April 2019, by Amine

  While he came to attend the funeral of his mother, who died on Friday, a Rif activist in the Spanish Basque Country was arrested in Morocco as part of a case of illegal immigration. This happened on Sunday.
  "A prominent Rif activist from the Basque Country arrested on arrival in Morocco," headlines Lavanguardia. His name is Khalid Amzir, but his real name is, according to EFE, Khalid H. and he was arrested following a judge’s order in Errachidia on suspicion of being involved in the (…)

• Heroic Rabat Policeman Prevents Self-Immolation Suicide Attempt in Clinic
  18 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  A young man was narrowly saved from a suicide attempt by a policeman in an ophthalmology office in [Rabat].
  A video widely circulated on social networks shows the scene. According to the account of the facts, the young man, his body sprayed with a flammable product, threatened to commit suicide by self-immolation.
  Being on the spot, a policeman engaged in conversation. First, he tried to dissuade him by playing on his psychology. Then he managed to grab him before seizing the lighter he (…)

• Deadly Herbal Infertility Treatment Claims Couple’s Lives in Morocco
  30 April 2019, by Amine

  While traditional healers are multiplying, promising many wonders and the healing of almost all ills, a couple has just paid the price, after trying a cure against infertility. Husband and wife are deceased.
  This is happening, according to Alyaoum24, around Fkih Bensalah. A couple who apparently wished for a child without being able to have one has just paid dearly for a traditional treatment (herbs), offered by a herbalist, which ended the life of both the husband and the wife.
  The (…)

• Sahrawi Youth Dies in Desert as Group Attempts Escape from Tindouf Camps to Morocco
  9 May 2019, by Amine

  It was a real hell that 5 young Sahrawis who were planning to travel from Tindouf to Morocco had to live through. One of them died of thirst.
  While the Polisario militias have tightened the noose around the Tindouf camps to prevent any rallying to Morocco, five young Sahrawis still tried their luck. But it did not go well.
  According to Hespress, the vehicle in which they were traveling broke down in the middle of nowhere. They were unable to repair it. And they started wandering in the (…)

• Morocco’s King Mohammed VI Sends Condolences to Saudi Arabia on Prince Miteb’s Death
  5 December 2019, by Ginette

  King Mohammed VI sent a message of condolence and compassion to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, following the death of Prince Miteb Ben Abdelaziz Al Saud.
  In a message, the Moroccan Sovereign said he had learned with great sorrow the news of the death of Prince Miteb Ben Abdelaziz Al Saud. He expressed on this painful occasion, to King Salman Ben Abdelaziz Al-Saud, and to all the members of the Saudi royal family, his sincere feelings of compassion.
  The King then prayed to the (…)