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While it had announced last month the cancellation of its lines to Vatry airport (Marne) from Porto (Portugal) and Marrakech (Morocco), Ryanair continued to serve XCR Airport.
Travelers were greatly surprised to see a Ryanair plane land on the runways of XCR Airport this Wednesday, April 2, 2025. "We didn’t know if we were going to take off, because Ryanair wasn’t telling us anything. Until the day before yesterday (Monday), we didn’t know," says a passenger to France 3. "We tried to (…)

A high school student of Moroccan origin filmed himself giving a Nazi salute in front of a synagogue in Valencia (Drôme). An act that earned him a police custody and an Obligation to Leave the French Territory (OQTF).
The prefect of Drôme, Thierry Devimeux, intends to tolerate no anti-Semitic and racist acts in his territory. In a press release, he "strongly condemns" this "odious" act committed on March 25 by "a young Moroccan national in an irregular situation" who "filmed himself in (…)

An employee of the prefecture of Béziers, in the Hérault, would have received nearly 500,000 euros to fraudulently issue residence permits to drug traffickers of Moroccan origin.
According to La Dépêche, the case dates back to 2022, when the Moroccan authorities reported suspicious movements of a French national between Morocco and Haute-Garonne. The investigation conducted by the Anti-Drug Office (OFAST) of Toulouse made it possible to identify a drug trafficking network, several members (…)

Missing for more than a week, Amjad Jacquemin, a 13-year-old teenager, remains untraceable. His family is desperately searching for him. The national police have issued a missing person alert for the young man of Moroccan origin.
This 13-year-old teenager, a resident of the Les Perce-Neige educational center in Gap, has not given any sign of life since March 23, the date on which he is said to have disappeared, according to the missing person alert issued by the police of the (…)

Anne Trontin, mayor of Montpont-en-Bresse, in Saône-et-Loire, had to record the marriage of a septuagenarian French woman, a militant of the Rassemblement national (RN), with a Tunisian undocumented immigrant.
While they were supposed to get married last October, Danielle, a 76-year-old French woman, who is also an RN activist, and Fadi, a 30-year-old Tunisian undocumented worker, finally got married for life on Saturday, in Montpont-en-Bresse, in Saône-et-Loire. Previously, the mayor of (…)

In Ariège, a Moroccan, who has already served various prison sentences for acts of violence, and an Albanian, convicted for death threats, theft and burglary in recidivism, have been expelled to their countries of origin. These are the eleventh and twelfth border returns carried out in this department of Occitanie since the beginning of 2025.
According to the services of the Prefecture, these two events took place on Mondays, March 3 and 10, 2025 at the request of the representative of (…)

Youssef, a 45-year-old Moroccan, was arrested last week as he got off a plane at Orly airport (Val-de-Marne), after returning from Morocco. This delivery man is part of the home delivery network for cannabis herb and resin, which started its activities in Villejuif six years ago.
The defendant was arrested on March 26 for his alleged involvement in the Caliweed case. Youssef had managed to escape the investigators of the judicial police department of the Val-de-Marne during the operation (…)

The trial of the Apollonia case, considered one of the biggest real estate scandals in France, opens this Monday, March 31 before the Marseille judicial court. Morocco is cited in this major scam involving notaries and bankers who are said to have collected around one billion euros from 762 victims.
During this trial, which will last more than three months, the 15 defendants, including a company, a lawyer, three notaries, and several salespeople and employees in charge of relations with (…)

Born in Casablanca, French host and actor Bernard Montiel was deeply marked by his arrival in Bordeaux where he was a victim of racism.
Invited to promote his weekly show Une heure avec..., Bernard Montiel, a guest on Quelle époque on Saturday, March 29, 2025 on France 2, talks about the defining moments of his childhood. As a child, he had been forced to leave Morocco, where he was born, for Bordeaux. A life change that he and his mother experienced very badly. "It was very violent (…)

Eid al-Fitr will be celebrated on Sunday, March 30, 2025 in France, the Great Mosque of Paris has just confirmed. Here is the full message of this announcement.
Our religious commission met at the Great Mosque of Paris, with several national Muslim federations, for the Night of Doubt on this Saturday evening, March 29, 2025, the 29th day of the blessed month of Ramadan 2025-1446/H.
The commission noted the possibility of observing the new moon and thus determined the date of Eid al-Fitr (…)