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  • Salafist Vigilantes Attack Man in Fez Over Alleged Affair, Face Criminal Charges
    2 May 2020, by Kamal

    To take justice into their own hands, radicalized individuals beat up a young man in Fez, suspected of having had intimate relations with their neighbor. The justice system has decided to take up the case.
    The Salafists defied the authorities by beating up a young man accused of having a romantic relationship with their neighbor.
    Brutally assaulted, the victim could only count on himself. He was able to extricate himself before fleeing.
    Prosecuted on provisional release by the (…)

  • Moroccan Students Launch Nanosatellites to Study Climate Change
    21 April 2019, by Kamal

    Students from the National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis (ENSIAS) have succeeded in developing two nanosatellites, intended for the study of the atmosphere and climate change.
    Like students from universities in India, Mexico and Great Britain, Moroccan students at ENSIAS, Mohammed V University in Rabat, and the Private University of Fez (UPF), have managed to set up two nanosatellites capable of analyzing the atmosphere and climate change, through a high-tech space (…)

  • 8-Year-Old Girl Shot During Stray Dog Culling Operation in Fez, Morocco
    24 April 2019, by Amine

    Auxiliaries dependent on the municipality would have been tasked, in Fez, with culling stray dogs by firing live ammunition. An 8-year-old girl was a victim of this. Besides the dogs killed...
    According to Assabah, the source of this information, last Sunday, in Hay Ouad Zhoune in Fez, an 8-year-old girl was injured by gunfire from auxiliaries tasked with culling stray dogs. By shooting at them, even from a distance...
    Assabah writes: "they followed the dogs that fled in all directions (…)

  • Historic Fez Medina Showcased in TF1 Report: Morocco’s Cultural Capital Reinvents Itself
    28 April 2019, by Said

    The city of Fez, especially its millennium-old medina, was honored by the French channel TF1, which devoted a long report to it in the edition of its 1 p.m. news yesterday, Saturday, April 27.
    "Fez, the cultural capital of Morocco and the cradle of its civilization. Its medina is the largest in the world, renovated at the initiative of the king. Far from the museum city, Fez continues to reinvent itself," comments TF1.
    The medina of Fez has 8 main gates and some 9,600 alleys, "a real (…)

  • Moroccan Teen’s Rooftop Suicide Attempt Thwarted as Crowd Pleads for Her Life
    9 May 2020, by Bladi.net

    Souad, a young girl living in a working-class neighborhood of the spiritual capital of Morocco, decided to end her life.
    In the video of this senseless act, decided in the middle of Ramadan, and which went viral on social networks, we can see the young lady, armed with a knife, on the roof of a building.
    At the foot of the building from which she decided to jump into the void, a whole crowd, witness to the incident, begs her in vain to give up her act.
    For now, the motives for her act (…)

  • Elderly Man Stabs Wife, Takes Own Life in Tragic Fez Domestic Violence Case
    28 May 2020, by Kamal

    A 67-year-old man committed the unthinkable on Tuesday, May 27, by inflicting several knife blows on his wife, before taking his own life at his home in Fez.
    An investigation for attempted murder has been opened by the prefectural judicial police service of Fez, under the supervision of the public prosecutor’s office, in order to determine the exact circumstances and motives of the sexagenarian’s murderous act.
    Also 67 years old, the wife, who was seriously injured by the blows (…)

  • British Tourist Jailed in Morocco for Insulting and Threatening Official
    18 May 2019, by Amine

    This Thursday, a British national was sentenced to six months in prison because he insulted and threatened to take revenge on a Moroccan civil servant.
    According to Goud.ma, this British citizen was apprehended by the gendarmerie of Ouled Tayeb in the vicinity of the spiritual capital of the Kingdom, Fez. A complaint had previously been filed against him by a civil servant.
    This complaint concerns acts of insults, humiliation and threats of revenge, uttered by the British national (…)

  • Gueye Tara Crowned Miss Côte d’Ivoire 2019 in Glamorous Abidjan Ceremony
    3 June 2019, by Bladi.net

    The annual "Miss Côte d’Ivoire" challenge reached its climax on Saturday, June 1st at the Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire in Abidjan. After an evening of cultural events pitting her against 26 other candidates, it was Gueye Tara who was crowned Miss Côte d’Ivoire 2019, succeeding Suy Fatim.
    The Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire was packed for this final of "Miss Côte d’Ivoire" which lined up 27 young women, all as beautiful as the others. Already elected "Miss of the Bélier region" on Saturday, March 23 at the (…)

  • Interpol-Wanted Algerian Drug Trafficking Suspect Arrested in Morocco
    6 June 2019, by Kamal

    Suspected of links with an international drug trafficking network, an Algerian national was arrested by Moroccan authorities in Fez as he was preparing his residence permit in Morocco.
    According to a statement from the DGSN, the 36-year-old man was busy preparing his residence permit in Morocco when the "tracking operation" carried out on the basis of Interpol’s database revealed that he was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the Algerian authorities.
    He is (…)

  • Fez Police Force Hit by COVID-19 Outbreak, District Closed
    21 July 2020, by Sylvanus

    Two cases of contamination have recently been discovered among police officers in the Agdal district, bringing the number of police officers affected by covid-19 in the city of Fez to 20, reports L’Économiste. As a result, this district has been closed until further notice.
    In June, the authorities in Fez had proceeded to close the Saïss district after 4 cases of contamination had been recorded among the police officers.