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• Moroccan Defender Mendyl Aims for National Team Return After Bundesliga Struggles
  1 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  After his failed stint in Germany with Schalke 04, the Moroccan international has returned to Ligue 1, at Dijon. Determined to make people forget his failure in the Bundesliga, the Atlas Lion also wants to regain his place in the national team and play the next Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) 2021, after missing the 2019 edition.
  In an interview with France Football, Hamza Mendyl, 21, says it all about his career. The young Dijon player did not fail to take stock of his disastrous stint in (…)

• Moroccan International Hamza Mendyl Loaned to Dijon from Schalke 04
  20 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  The Moroccan international, Hamza Mendyl, joins Ligue 1 with the Dijon club. The native of Casablanca and former member of Lille has been loaned to this French club, without a purchase option, for one season.
  Under contract since 2018 with Schalke04 until 2023, the Atlas Lion, Mendyl, was on his way out. With 16 caps to his name, all competitions combined, in the German club, his performances no longer seduce Schalke 04. The latter has therefore decided to do without his services.
  The (…)

• Far-Right Official Confronts Veiled Mother at French Regional Council Meeting
  13 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  The presence of a veiled woman accompanying her child to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in Dijon provoked the anger of a Rassemblement national (RN) official who did not hesitate to attack her. Outraged, the Socialist President of the region intends to file a complaint.
  It is a humiliation that was experienced by a veiled woman. The young woman who was accompanying her son, a fifth-grade student, to the primary school in Belfort, like any good mother, to discover the (…)

• French Government Split Over Islamic Veil in Schools and Public Life
  16 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  While Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, hammers that "the wearing of the veil is not desirable" in society, Cédric O, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, says that "it has never been a problem".
  It took Julien Odoul, an elected member of the Rassemblement national (RN), to be very aggressive towards a veiled woman who was accompanying her son to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in Dijon, on Friday, October 11, for the debate on the wearing of the (…)

• Moroccan Man Arrested in Connection with Two Decades-Old Murders in Isère
  29 November 2024, by Said

  A man of Moroccan origin was arrested in Dijon by the gendarmes. He is suspected of being involved in two unsolved murder cases: those of Laïla Afif, 40, in 2000, and Nathalie Boyer, 15, in 1988. These two tragedies, which took place in Isère, have disturbing similarities that have caught the attention of the investigators of the national cold case unit in Nanterre.
  The Laïla Afif case had begun tragically on May 12, 2000 in Villefontaine, recalls Le Parisien. This mother of five had (…)

• Morocco Eyes Dijon’s Mounir Chouiar for National Team Debut
  26 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  Pre-selected by Vahid Halilhodzic, the Dijon player Mounir Chouiar should join the squad soon. This young Franco-Mauritanian-Moroccan talent is one of the young elements on whom the Bosnian coach is counting.
  Mounir Chouiar is indeed on the pre-list of the Bosnian Halilhodzic. New faces are expected during the gathering in October. Among them is the young Franco-Mauritanian-Moroccan, the attacking midfielder of Dijon.
  "He is on the extended list, we should be informed quickly about his (…)

• French Court Blocks Parents from Naming Child ’Jihad’, Cites Negative Connotations
  29 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  The French justice annulled, on Friday, September 27, the first name "Jihad" which it considers as a "pejorative meaning".
  The first name "Jihad" refused in France. Several reasons would explain this situation. According to the Dijon (central-east) Public Prosecutor’s Office, the court does not accept this first name because it considers that it can be harmful to the child and likely to cause him problems.
  "The first name +Jihad+, which has a pejorative meaning because it is associated (…)

• Muslim Woman to Sue French Far-Right Politician Over Veil Incident
  18 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  Humiliated for her veil on October 11 by an elected member of the Rassemblement national (RN), Fatima has decided to take the matter to court.
  According to the details provided by Sana Ben Hadj Younes, the lawyer for the young woman, "it is a complaint against the deputy for violence committed in a group by persons holding public authority on a minor and an adult with racial characteristics," filed with the Dijon prosecutor’s office.
  In addition, "a second complaint will be filed with (…)

• Muslim Teacher’s Dismissal Overturned by Dijon Court in Religious Discrimination Case
  28 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Muslim physics-chemistry teacher accused of "creating a climate of unease within the management team of the college" located in Chablis in the Yonne will no longer be ousted. This is the decision of the Administrative Court of Dijon, which considered the elements reported by the principal of the college to be "insufficient".
  At the origin of the decision to dismiss the physics-chemistry teacher by the Dijon rectorate on October 31, a "feeling of unease" denounced by the principal of (…)

• Moroccan Student in France Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Pay Tuition
  22 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  Without financial resources, Amine Abounour, a young Moroccan student at a business school in Dijon, has launched an online crowdfunding campaign on the GoFundMe website to pay his tuition fees.
  While he is aiming for a collection of 15,000 euros, the student has only raised 235 euros after seven days of launching this crowdfunding campaign, reports France bleu. The young Moroccan is studying this year at the Bourgoundy School of Business. His dream is to pursue a career in accounting. (…)