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Prosecuted for the murder of his wife, a Moroccan has just been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
The sentence was handed down last night by the Assizes of Hérault, where Abdenbi Choua was on trial since last Monday for the murder of his wife Khadija, found dead on September 17, 2014 in her kitchen.
Called to the stand yesterday to convince the jurors of his innocence, the man maintained his version: "I am innocent, I ask you for my freedom, I am innocent," according to the newspaper (…)

In a press release, the school group is pleased with the recruitment of teachers mainly from France and internationally, who "rely on the experience of its principal" and aim to "prove that educational success also comes from an optimal environment."
Located on 14,000 m2, the school group will have a 250-seat auditorium, a catering area, a covered sports hall, outdoor sports facilities, scientific and technological laboratories as well as areas dedicated to languages, arts and various (…)

France granted about 3.5 million visas during the year 2018, according to provisional statistics just published by the French Ministry of the Interior.
Moroccans are in third place among the beneficiaries with 334,016 visas issued, a slight increase compared to last year (323,570), behind the Chinese (875,994) and the Russians (372,451) and ahead of the Algerians (297,104), the Indians (268,239), the Tunisians (154,011), the Turks (125,290) and the Saudis who received 93,313 Schengen (…)

The Theological Council of Imams of the Rhône (CTIR) has just taken a firm stand on civil marriage and religious marriage during its second assembly held on January 12 at the Décines mosque, near Lyon.
"The CTIR reminds all the imams of the Rhône that they must under no circumstances celebrate a religious marriage if it is not preceded by a civil marriage at the town hall or before any other official institution," the CTIR writes in its final statement.
For Azzedine Gaci, rector of the (…)

The trial of Abdennbi Choua, accused of savagely killing his wife in September 2014, has opened today at the Hérault Assize Court.
Incarcerated since that date, the 50-year-old man claims his innocence and says that on that day, he had taken his children to school before going to his workplace, reports France Bleu. Around 12:30 p.m., he received a call from the teacher telling him that his wife had not come to pick up the children from school.
He claims to have gone home before (…)

The explosion that occurred on Saturday in a bakery located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris left four dead and several injured, including two Moroccans.
Yesterday, the lifeless body of a woman was discovered by firefighters in the rubble of the building, several media report. The victim resided in the main building blown up by the explosion.
"Two Moroccan nationals, who were staying in a hotel opposite the bakery where the explosion occurred, are among the slightly injured persons," (…)

Swastikas were discovered on Monday morning on the wall of the future mosque in Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), currently under construction.
According to France Bleu, five Nazi crosses were painted on the perimeter wall and barriers of the mosque construction site in Amboise. The alert had been given by a neighbor who claims that the crosses were not yet written at 8:30 a.m. when he left for work.
The Turkish cultural association will file a complaint and the sub-prefect went to the site to (…)

More than 30,000 French retirees leave France during the winter to go to Morocco, reports the French channel France 2 in a report entitled "The Swallows of Agadir".
For the French channel, they "go down each year in motorhomes towards the Moroccan sun, as soon as the cold sets in on the Hexagon. And like the swallows, these retirees return to the nest when it’s better in France".
These retirees particularly appreciate the mild climate and the low cost of living, like Alain and his wife (…)

Two French nationals were arrested yesterday, Friday, in Tangier for their alleged involvement in a case of drugs and psychotropic substances.
"The defendants used a plant seed and gardening equipment store to conceal the trafficking of chira and cannabis stems," says the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a statement.
It adds that the searches led to the discovery, inside the store, of more than 50 small plastic bags containing chira tablets ready for sale and envelopes (…)

A great catch by the French police who seized about 2.5 tons of cannabis last week, presumably from Morocco.
On December 26, the police got their hands on a utility van in Angers, in Maine-et-Loire, in which 2.5 tons of drugs packaged in 30 kg suitcases were hidden, reports the newspaper Le Parisien. The driver of the vehicle had been under surveillance for several months "based on wiretaps and surveillance".
The next day, four men were arrested by the police in "various cities in (…)