The Chief of the Defense Staff (CEMA), Army General François Lecointre met on Thursday with several Moroccan civilian and military officials. The strengthening of relations between the two countries was among the topics discussed.
The closure of Moroccan borders has hit hard French airports that offer air links to Morocco . This is the case, for example, of the one in Occitanie.
La Méridionale is preparing to launch a regular ropax line between Marseille and Tangier. Announced for late October or early November, it will offer three rotations per week.
Franco-Moroccan Bertrand-Kamal Loudrhiri, a participant in the latest season of Koh-Lanta, currently airing on TF1, died on Wednesday, September 9 from cancer at the age of 31. The channel presented its condolences to his family, evoking the memory of a courageous man who faced the disease with dignity.
Anthony Lazarevitch, 36, and Gilbert Chikli, 55, considered the masterminds of a vast fraud targeting personalities including King Mohammed VI , were respectively sentenced on appeal in Paris to seven and ten years in prison with a two-thirds security sentence. The two defendants had posed as Jean-Yves Le Drian, then Minister of Defense.
About thirty Moroccan minors who arrived in France in October 2016 live in the Goutte d’Or neighborhood where they are known to be involved in thefts and violent assaults. Olivier Peyroux, a sociologist with the Trajectoires association, talks about these unaccompanied minors.
The President of the National Foundation of Museums (FNM) was received, on Tuesday at the Élysée, for a working lunch with Brigitte Macron. The discussions with Mehdi Qotbi focused on the Eugène Delacroix exhibition scheduled to be held in April 2021 in Morocco.
France, through its ambassador Hélène Le Gal in Rabat, has welcomed the efforts of the kingdom in its management of the health crisis due to Covid-19 and at the same time affirmed its determination to work for the strengthening of the friendship and cooperation relations between the two countries.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the penalization of virginity certificates that doctors issue to their patients as part of a religious marriage. This idea is not to the liking of gynecologist Ghada Hatem.
The Minister Delegate for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, affirmed on Sunday her desire to "accelerate the naturalization of foreign nationals on the front line during the lockdown".
The Béziers Criminal Court sentenced a Moroccan residing in France to two years in prison, including one suspended, with an obligation to receive treatment, for habitual acts of violence. His wife broke down in tears after the verdict.
The young Franco-Algerian novelist, Fatima Daas, an openly lesbian Muslim, claims that "homosexuality is a sin" in Islam. A surprising point of view for journalist Léa Salamé.