The former manager of the Al Houda mosque in Grande-Synthe, in the Hauts-de-France region, was sentenced by the Dunkirk criminal court to three years in prison, including one year firm and two with probation. Amirouche Ouarab was prosecuted for embezzlement.
The trial of a 36-year-old Moroccan man, involved in a major international prostitution network, opens on Tuesday before the Montpellier court.
The new French ambassador to Rabat, Christophe Lecourtier, dissociated France from the European Parliament, which recently passed a resolution to denounce the situation of press freedom in Morocco and suspect the kingdom of corruption.
The trial of Kamel Meziani, a Marseille drug trafficker, one of France’s most wanted fugitives, will open on Monday before the Aix-en-Provence assize court. The 38-year-old criminal, who had been extradited by Morocco, has managed to evade justice for almost 10 years.
Sihem Belouahmia, the 18-year-old high school student, who disappeared on January 25 near Alès in the Gard, then found dead in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, February 2, on the edge of a forest path, Col de la Croix-des-Vents, will be buried on Monday in the Muslim section of the cemetery of Salles-sur-Gardon (Gard) in private.
During a dispute, a Moroccan butcher stabbed his Afghan colleague, leaving him in critical condition. The alleged aggressor was arrested and taken into custody.
The customs officers of Bordeaux intercepted on the A63 motorway, near the Saugnac-et-Muret toll booth, on the border between the Landes and the Gironde, a truck coming from Spain which was transporting a large quantity of wheat and drugs carefully hidden in side compartments. A Moroccan couple was arrested and then detained.
The perpetrator of the intentional damage targeting the Muslim community of Saint-Juéry (Tarn) was sentenced this week to 10 months in prison with a suspended sentence. He is a 28-year-old cook, suffering from personality disorders.
The lifting of the parliamentary immunity of the European deputy Nicolas Bay, former cadre of the Rassemblement national, also vice-president of Reconquête! targeted by an investigation for incitement to racial hatred against Muslims, paves the way for the elected representative to be brought to justice.
The Douai Assize Court (Hauts-de-France) sentenced Ludovic Ladrière, the murderer of Karim El Barni, to 25 years in criminal detention. The resident of Saint-Waast-la-Vallée (near Bavay) admitted to having fired several times at the victim with his rifle on January 12, 2018.
BFMTV presenter Rachid M’Barki, is "relieved of activity" for having broadcast information on an economic forum between Morocco and Spain in Dakhla, in the Sahara, without referring to his hierarchy. He is the subject of an internal investigation.
Ayoub A., husband of Nadia, a woman of Moroccan origin whom he had been beating for years at his parents’ home in Essonne, was sentenced on January 26 to one year in prison for domestic violence.