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Undocumented Immigrants in France Resist COVID Tests to Avoid Deportation
In France, undocumented Moroccans and other nationalities in administrative detention centers (CRA) express their refusal to take a Covid-19 test. And for good reason.
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Moroccan Students in France Face Financial Hardship Amid COVID-19 Crisis
In France, the health crisis related to the coronavirus has not spared Moroccan and other foreign students. Without family support and summer jobs, they live in precariousness.
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Morocco Bans French Newspapers Republishing Charlie Hebdo Prophet Cartoons
Five and a half years after the attacks perpetrated against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo , the French satirical weekly has decided to republish the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, in tribute to the killed journalists and cartoonists. A choice that does not go down well in Morocco.
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Moroccan Woman Overcomes Rare Disability, Shares Journey After 17 Surgeries
The "ça commence aujourd’hui" show on France 2 welcomed on Thursday, September 10, 2020, a 21-year-old Moroccan woman born with a malformation. Faustine Bollaert, the host of the show, was moved by the poignant testimony of the young Raja.
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Illegal IPTV Streaming Threatens Pay-TV Sports Broadcasters
If IPTV, this magical box in vogue in the Maghreb and France, brings happiness to many soccer fans, it brings misery to pay-TV broadcasters of sports programs. But the latter do not admit defeat.
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Tariq Ramadan Faces €4,000 Fine for Revealing Rape Accuser's Identity
Tariq Ramadan could pay a fine of 4,000 euros for having disclosed the identity of one of the women who accused him of rape.
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COVID-19 Case at Rabat's Descartes High School Prompts Teacher Quarantine and Remote Learning
The Descartes High School in Rabat has just recorded a first case of Covid-19 contamination. It is a teacher whose PCR test proved positive, leaving very worried parents of students.
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Controversial Comedian Fined $10,000 for Racist Remarks in French Show
For making racist remarks in June 2017, during his show "Le Bal des quenelles", Dieudonné has been convicted again. The comedian will have to pay two fines.
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Former French Minister Dati Under Investigation for Lucrative Renault Contract
From 2010, Rachida Dati was employed by Renault, who paid her 900,000 euros. The justice system smells an rather illegal contract, and perhaps a fictitious job, just like journalists Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme who investigated the case.
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Moroccan Parents Jailed in France for Forcing Daughter into Marriage Abroad
The court in Nîmes last Tuesday sentenced a father and his partner to 18 months in prison with probation each, in a case of forced marriage organized in Morocco.
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Moroccan Workers in France Hit Hard by COVID-19 Job Losses, Report Shows
The Covid-19 pandemic has had serious repercussions on the French economy, with among other things, the loss of thousands of jobs for Moroccans living abroad (MREs) working in the service sector. In contrast, dozens of Moroccan doctors are being recruited to fill the deficit in hospitals.
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French Journalists Face Trial for Alleged Blackmail of Morocco's King Mohammed VI
Two French journalists, Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, are under threat of a trial in a Paris court for " blackmail ". They are accused of having tried to extort millions of euros from King Mohammed VI in exchange for abandoning a book supposedly embarrassing for the kingdom.