The former imam of the mosque in Saint-Chamond, Ahamada Mmadi, and his family were expelled from France on Monday, May 2, the day of the celebration of Eid Al-Fitr. The religious dignitary is accused of having delivered a sermon incompatible with the principles of the Republic and gender equality.
NGOs like CGT Ceuta Social Action have denounced the arrests and immediate expulsions of Moroccan migrants in irregular situations in several cities in Spain.
Fatima Maknassi, 31, and Rachid El Yagoubi, 51, were evicted from their home in Madrid last year. The Moroccan couple is still looking for decent housing.
The National Court has confirmed the decision of the Girona court which in 2021 sentenced a Moroccan to eight years in prison for raping and kidnapping a young woman in an apartment in Blanes (Girona) in 2015.
The Spanish photojournalist, David Melero, has been expelled from Morocco, after trying to interview the Sahrawi activist, Sultana Khaya.
The arrests and expulsions of sub-Saharan migrants living or working in Tangier, near the Ceuta border, have intensified over the past two weeks following Spain’s change of position on the Sahara. The migrants denounce this "unacceptable" attitude of the Moroccan authorities.
A 25-year-old Moroccan has just lost his appeal against the decision of his expulsion from Spanish territory for threat to national security, pronounced in 2018 by the Spanish authorities.
Student unions in Montpellier are showing their support for Jalal, a "brilliant student" of Moroccan origin, who is threatened with expulsion. A rally is being organized this Tuesday in front of the Montpellier administrative court, where his hearing will take place.
The municipal councilor of Molenbeek, Ahmed El Khannouss, former regional deputy, will probably be excluded from the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH) if he commits another slip-up. This is the latest warning from the party’s ethics committee, which had been seized after the remarks of the elected official on the decision of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Sammy Mahdi (CD&V), to withdraw the residence permit of the Moroccan imam Mohamed Toujgani and to ban him from accessing the territory for 10 years.
Younès Megri blames Nasr, the son of his late brother Hassan, for having disseminated "in absolute agitation" senseless remarks in the wake of the case of the attempted eviction of the Megri brothers from the house they have been renting in the Kasbah of the Oudayas in Rabat for 50 years.
The expulsion of imam Mohamed Toujgani from Belgium continues to fuel the debate. Deputy Nabil Boukili (PTB), intervening on the subject, called for respect for the rule of law.
Mohamed Toujgani, the main imam of the Al Khalil mosque , the largest in Belgium, reacts to his expulsion to Morocco due in particular to a video dating back more than 10 years in which he called for the burning of "oppressive Zionists". He has decided to appeal this decision "which deprives him of" his "fundamental freedoms and rights".