The name of the Franco-Moroccan Karim Bouamrane , PS mayor of Saint-Ouen since 2020, is among the names considered for the position of Prime Minister. Will he have the chance to be appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron?
France seized the opportunity of the festivities for the 80th anniversary of the Provence landings on Thursday, August 15, to reaffirm its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara. Much to the displeasure of Algeria, which continues to brandish threats of retaliation against Paris since its change of position on this issue.
Back in France after a vacation in Morocco with his parents, a teenager was taken into custody for a bad joke on board a flight from Agadir to Orly airport.
Bilal Taghi, the Franco-Moroccan jihadist convicted in 2019 to twenty-eight years in prison for attempted murder on two prison guards in Osny (Val-d’Oise), has just been stripped of his French nationality.
Algeria refuses the landing in its airports of its nationals expelled by France, in reaction to Paris’ support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara .
The recognition by France of the Moroccanness of the Sahara is historic, said Rachida Dati, the French Minister of Culture, stating that Morocco’s sovereignty over this territory is indisputable.
Leaving for Algeria for his father’s funeral, Abdel, a French civil servant, returns to France and faces a major problem. He is turned away from the territory upon disembarking at Orly (Val-de-Marne) airport, then placed in detention. Released four days later, he is fighting to recover his French passport.
Julie Gahinet, the collaborator of the Rassemblement national deputy, Julien Odoul, is accused of having made racist remarks against Moroccan customers in a bar in Paris. The person concerned denies the facts. The victims have filed a complaint.
In Bordeaux, a policewoman "who is tired of being referred to her Maghrebi origins" and who is "outraged" by the "hostile and offensive" service atmosphere has filed a complaint for "moral harassment" against her superior. She also accuses him of racist remarks. The IGPN is conducting an investigation to determine whether the facts are proven or not.
In France, the customs of Sète seized high-value artworks from Morocco, without supporting documents.
Seized a second time in summary proceedings, the administrative court of Lille rejected the request for provisional maintenance of the association contract with the State pending a decision on the merits addressed to it by the association managing the private Muslim high school Averroès, as well as the associations representing the school staff and the parents of students.
On the run in Morocco, the leader of a drug trafficking network active in Canteleu (Seine-Maritime) was sentenced in absentia to the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of two million euros by the Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) court.