Escape

Articles

• Spain Issues Arrest Warrants for 13 Migrants Who Fled After Emergency Landing
  13 November 2021, by Prince

  The Investigating Court of Palma in Majorca issued this week a national arrest warrant against the 13 migrants who escaped from Palma airport after an emergency landing. The judge also ordered the provisional detention of twelve other migrants.
  The judge of the Palma Court has issued a national arrest and search warrant against these 13 migrants who took advantage of an emergency landing to escape from Palma airport, according to sources from the High Court of Justice of the Balearic (…)

• Spanish Officials Criticize Morocco for Delays in Airport Escape Investigation
  14 November 2021, by Prince

  The Spanish authorities are continuing the investigations to find the 12 Moroccan migrants who took advantage of an emergency landing to escape from Palma airport in Majorca. They denounce the lack of cooperation from Morocco, which is slow to provide all the data on the fugitives.
  "The delays recorded on the Moroccan side to provide key data on the fugitives from the patera plane have complicated the investigations," indicate sources close to the case to ABC. "The effectiveness of the (…)

• Surge in Moroccan Political Asylum Seekers Challenges Morocco’s Human Rights Claims
  29 July 2019, by Kamal

  The number of Moroccans who have benefited from the right to political asylum in Europe has increased very worryingly over the past two years. Political changes have forced the majority of European countries to adopt more flexible measures towards political refugees.
  According to the newspaper Al Qods Al Arabi, although the Moroccan authorities deny the existence of political detainees in Morocco, preferring to use the term "prisoners of riots", European countries contradict the Moroccan (…)

• Moroccan Teen’s Tarmac Breach Halts Flights at Milan Airport
  12 November 2019, by Kamal

  Arriving on a flight from Turkey, an 18-year-old Moroccan man, who tried to enter Italy illegally, was arrested by the border police at Milan airport last Saturday evening.
  Taking advantage of a moment of inattention, the individual infiltrated the tarmac, creating a general state of panic among airport employees and forcing the suspension of flights for about twenty minutes.
  According to the Italian media, airport activity could only resume once the security services had confirmed the (…)

• Belgian ’Escape King’ Sentenced to 4 Years for Leading Criminal Gang from Moroccan Prison
  4 January 2024, by Prince

  Detained in Morocco, Ashraf Sekkaki has just been sentenced again to four years in prison by the Belgian authorities. He is accused of having led a gang in the Antwerp region from his cell in Morocco.
  Nicknamed the "king of escape" after his spectacular escape from the Bruges prison in 2009, where he was serving a ten-year sentence for armed robberies, Ashraf Sekkaki, 39, took refuge in Morocco before being arrested and then detained in a prison near Rabat.
  Despite his incarceration, (…)

• Belgian Crime Family Linked to International Drug Trafficking
  31 January, by Prince

  The Sekkaki brothers, of Moroccan origin, are involved in several thefts, robberies and escapes in Belgium. And that’s not all. They are now linked to international drug trafficking.
  The Sekkaki family is originally from northern Morocco. Mohamed Sekkaki, born in Douar Aghlid Imzouren, a small village south of Al Hoceima, moved with his wife Faiza to Belgium. The couple settled in Mechelen, in a modest residence across from the Racing Mechelen football stadium. Mohamed and Faiza had nine (…)

• Dangerous Inmate Escapes Psychiatric Ward in Taza, Morocco; Manhunt Underway
  18 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  A dangerous prisoner fled, on Thursday, from the Ibn Bajja hospital in Taza, causing panic in the psychiatric ward where he was admitted.
  The escape of this "dangerous prisoner", who killed his father under rather murky circumstances, resulted in a general and unusual alert within the hospital.
  The defendant, "under judicial supervision", suffered from serious mental disorders and had been admitted to the mental health services for this sordid crime he committed, Hespress reported. (…)

• Moroccan Inmate Escapes Seville Prison Moments Before Deportation
  3 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  A Moroccan national under an expulsion order has managed to escape from the Seville prison. This inmate, who had finished serving his sentence, was cunning in evading the vigilance of the security team in charge of retrieving him at the entrance of the Seville II prison.
  The authorities of the Seville II prison are still under the shock they experienced on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, at 11:30 am. After serving his sentence for the offense of driving and attacking security services, he was to (…)

• Manhunt Intensifies for Moroccan Escapee Who Scaled Frankfurt Prison Wall
  6 August 2019, by Kamal

  The scene resembles a Hollywood movie sequence. A Moroccan prisoner in Frankfurt escaped from the local prison by climbing a 5.5-meter-high wall, in the middle of the day.
  The 35-year-old Moroccan had taken advantage of the "walk" break to deceive the vigilance of the guards and to carry out his escape plan, by going beyond the prison enclosure, despite the barbed wire.
  According to local media, about ten police officers, accompanied by dogs, have been trying to find the prisoner’s (…)

• 11 Dangerous Psychiatric Patients Escape Casablanca Hospital in Planned Breakout
  4 September 2019, by Kamal

  11 residents of the psychiatric hospital under the Ibn Rochd University Hospital Center in Casablanca escaped during the night of Friday, August 30.
  According to a statement from the hospital, relayed by Akhbarona, a large search device was immediately mobilized to find the patients, presumed to be dangerous, without results.
  Specifying that it was a premeditated action, the statement adds that the 11 residents managed to escape in a spectacular way, by digging holes in the walls of (…)