The gendarmes of Tarn-et-Garonne managed to apprehend a driver flashed at 182 km/h on the highway and his 22-year-old Moroccan passenger after a car chase that ended at the Saint-Jory toll booth in Haute-Garonne. The vehicle caught fire.
After announcing their "definitive withdrawal" from the executive office of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), four federations intend to create a "coordination", in order to reflect on "the restructuring of the representation of the Muslim faith in France".
The French political scientist, specialist in the Arab world and Islam in the West, Gilles Kepel, rules out any change in the American position on the Sahara issue. The predecessor of Joe Biden had signed, on December 10, 2020, a decree recognizing American sovereignty of Morocco over the Sahara.
Unicef France has reservations about the Franco-Moroccan cooperation for the return of unaccompanied minors and says it is "extremely concerned about the impacts of this cooperation on the effectiveness of children’s rights and the risks they face in case of return". The institution takes a dim view of the consequences that a forced return will have on these children.
Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) who have not so far declared to their countries of residence the bank accounts held in Morocco will be subject to heavy penalties, after the launch in September 2021 of the data exchange between the signatory states of the "Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information for Tax Purposes (AEOI)".
In a joint press release signed by Kamel Kabtane, the president of the Grand Mosque of Lyon, three halal certification bodies (Grand Mosque of Paris, Evry and Lyon) denounce the new directive on slaughter which would be contrary to the ritual sacrifice (halal). The French Union of Muslim Consumers believes that this is not the case.
In a spirit of solidarity, the Othmane Mosque and the Notre-Dame de la Fraternité Church have decided to come to the aid of students in need in these difficult times of Covid-19. They are preparing to offer them a meal and hygiene product baskets on the Doua campus in Villeurbanne (Rhône), on March 27.
The French group Alstom and the National Railway Office (ONCF) have just concluded a contract for the maintenance of the electric locomotives of the railways. This partnership is part of the green revolution of the kingdom in the railway transport sector.
The police services arrested, this week, in Casablanca a Franco-Algerian and a Russian national, involved in various cases. They were both the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol.
The Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA) has fined CNews 200,000 euros for Eric Zemmour’s remarks on migrant minors. A first for a continuous news channel.
In France, several people report having been victims of at least one attack - insults, threats, violence or discrimination - of a racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic nature. According to official figures published on Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior, more than 11,000 cases were recorded in 2020.
In France, the ritual halal slaughter of poultry will no longer be authorized from July 2021. The Great Mosques of Paris, Lyon and Evry, which have informed Muslims of this decision, "ask the Minister of Agriculture to receive them urgently to hear them on this issue".