Prosecuted at large for indecent assault, insult, immoral behavior and others, Moroccan rapper El Grande Toto was sentenced to eight months in prison with probation and a fine of 10,000 dirhams.
The trial of two French journalists suspected of trying to blackmail King Mohammed VI will open on Monday, January 16 in Paris. They face up to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.
The Paris court has convicted former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, who is also the president of the Reconquête party, to a 4,000 euro fine and 3,000 euros in damages for racist insult. In 2018, he had described Hapsatou Sy’s first name as an "insult to France".
In Agadir, a petit taxi driver defrauded a tourist who filed a complaint against him. In addition to a possible fine that will be imposed on him, he could have his driver’s license revoked.
A man was sentenced to one year in prison and a fine for "forcing" his family to embrace the Shiite religious doctrine.
The Moroccan Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, is expressing his willingness to repeal the 1967 law prohibiting any establishment from selling or offering an alcoholic beverage to Muslims. A constraining law whose non-observance exposes offenders to up to six months in prison and 140 euros in fines.
The gendarmes on duty at the Motorized Platoon of Charleville-Mézières (Departmental Road Safety Squadron) intercepted during the night from Thursday to Friday a caravan and its trailer heading to Morocco that was zigzagging at 30 km/h on the highway. The driver was heavily fined.
Two people have been convicted for killing an animal belonging to an endangered species. Their crime was captured in a video that went viral on the Moroccan web.
Prosecuted in particular for "participation in the possession of a narcotic substance and export of drugs without a permit or license from the customs administration", a former MP from the National Rally of Independents (RNI) was sentenced to eight years in prison and a fine of 100,000 DH by the court of first instance in Zagora.
The five people prosecuted in the case of land spoliation in Harhoura were sentenced to various prison terms and fines at first instance.
Bad news for the uncle who had given his three-year-old nephew a t-shirt in 2012 in Sorgues, in the Vaucluse, bearing the inscriptions "I am a bomb" and " Jihad , born on September 11". The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has confirmed the decision of the French justice which had sentenced him to two months in prison with probation and a fine of 4,000 euros.
In Témara, the gendarmerie services accompanied by officials and representatives of the local authorities proceeded to arrest 60 people in a luxury villa transformed into a banquet hall, where a wedding party was taking place. A fine was imposed on them for violating the restrictive measures enacted to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the kingdom.