Admitted to the emergency department of the Hassan II University Hospital Center, the Frenchman established in Morocco and converted to Islam, who was the victim of a knife attack within the mausoleum of Moulay Idriss in Fez, succumbed to his injuries.
France is by far Morocco’s main customer with 51% of the production sold abroad. The Moroccan tomato thus outperforms the French and Spanish ones, but voices are rising to ban its import.
Morocco remains the preferred destination of the French outside Europe. In 2023, more than a third of the 14.5 million travelers who arrived in the kingdom come from the Hexagon.
Marouane Ettoujguani, a 21-year-old Moroccan, lost his life, crushed by a freight convoy, as he tried to illegally immigrate to France from Spain via the tunnel connecting the Spanish town of Portbou to Cerbère (France).
Actively sought since his escape from the Alcalá Meco prison in Madrid, Youssef Lehrech alias "El Pastilla", was arrested on Thursday near the Leipzig train station in Germany. The dangerous criminal, accused of two murders, had been located in Morocco and France.
Morocco would have entrusted its program for the launch of two new satellites to the Israeli manufacturer Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), to the detriment of the consortium formed by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space, which had led the programs of its two previous satellites, Mohammed VI A and B, launched in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Seventeen Moroccan seasonal workers find themselves stranded in Vaucluse, due to lack of pay. Deprived of the bare minimum, they live in difficult conditions, but are determined to fight to get their due.
The police agents at Marrakech-Menara airport arrested, on Wednesday, a 39-year-old Algerian national, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the French judicial authorities in a case related to money laundering.
A woman was convicted by the Évreux court for fraud. From Morocco, she continued to receive her mother’s pension, whose death in 1998 she had never reported.
The Muslim Theological Council of France (CTMF) explains the reasons that led it to increase the amount of zakat al-fitr.
Morocco aims to revolutionize its rail network. Major projects are expected in this sector this year and the French equipment manufacturer Alstom, which has produced the first high-speed train in the kingdom, is not planning to miss this opportunity.
Karim Benzema has just filed a defamation complaint against Gérald Darmanin. The French Minister of the Interior had accused the French international in October of having "proven links" with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization, presumed to be terrorist.