While demonstrations against racism and police violence continue, a French police officer of Maghrebi origin and Muslim faith has given a testimony that breaks with the statements of recent days.
For a report broadcast in 2016 in the France 2 news, in which women would be "unwelcome" in a bar in the Seine-Saint-Denis commune, executives of the channel are being brought to trial.
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will operate, on Monday, June 22, repatriation flights for Moroccans stranded in France, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia and the Netherlands.
The repatriation operation of Moroccans stranded in France to the kingdom will begin on Monday, June 22.
Tarik Attar, prosecuted for the murder of Valentin Amrouche, whose body had been discovered in Montceau-les-Mines, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a 12-year security period. This is the judgment rendered at the end of a four-day trial before the Saône-et-Loire Assize Court, which opened on Monday, June 15.
While movements against racism and police violence are vandalizing statues in London and other cities, an online petition calls for the "immediate dismantling and removal" of the statue of Hubert Lyautey from the French consulate in Casablanca .
Seven major French companies have been summoned by the government for training on hiring discrimination. This summons follows a report published last February.
Ryanair announces the resumption of its flights to Morocco. In total, the low-cost airline wants to relaunch 36 routes from Marseille-Provence airport starting June 21 to France and from July 1 to Europe and the kingdom.
Eight years after the facts, the Poitiers Court of Appeal acquitted this Friday five activists of "Génération Identitaire". The far-right group had occupied the construction site of the Poitiers mosque in 2012.
In a letter dated June 17 addressed to the Minister of Tourism and Air Transport, Jean-Pierre Mas and René-Marc Chikli, respectively President of the Travel Companies (EDV) and President of the Union of Tour Operator Companies (SETO), ask Nadia Fettah to support their request for the reopening of Moroccan borders "before the peak summer period".
Racism is undergoing transformation in France, says the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH), according to which old prejudices are disappearing to make way for new ones.
Consular activity is about to resume in Morocco, which has been on hold since mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The French Consulate in Rabat will open its doors starting June 29.