Criminals posing as fake police officers are using Morocco’s country code to scam their victims in Gironde, in the Libourne area. The Libourne gendarmerie is warning of an increase in thefts since the beginning of the year.
The former manager of the Al Houda mosque in Grande-Synthe, in the Hauts-de-France region, was sentenced by the Dunkirk criminal court to three years in prison, including one year firm and two with probation. Amirouche Ouarab was prosecuted for embezzlement.
The French shipping company, La Méridionale, a subsidiary of Stef, the European leader in refrigerated logistics, has decided to cancel the Barcelona-Tangier link. From now on, it is focusing on Marseille-Tangier.
The Spanish athlete of Moroccan origin Mohamed Katir won the 1,500m indoor race at the Val-de-Reuil (France) tournament on Saturday with a time of 3:35.48. The world’s best performance of the year.
The new French ambassador to Rabat, Christophe Lecourtier, dissociated France from the European Parliament, which recently passed a resolution to denounce the situation of press freedom in Morocco and suspect the kingdom of corruption.
The trial of Kamel Meziani, a Marseille drug trafficker, one of France’s most wanted fugitives, will open on Monday before the Aix-en-Provence assize court. The 38-year-old criminal, who had been extradited by Morocco, has managed to evade justice for almost 10 years.
Moroccan Muay-Thai legend Youssef Boughanem won a new victory in Goussainville, defeating young Italian Federico Puddu by TKO.
French singer of Moroccan origin Imen Es announced during a concert that she is pregnant for the second time and at the same time displayed her round belly on stage.
Sihem Belouahmia, the 18-year-old high school student, who disappeared on January 25 near Alès in the Gard, then found dead in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, February 2, on the edge of a forest path, Col de la Croix-des-Vents, will be buried on Monday in the Muslim section of the cemetery of Salles-sur-Gardon (Gard) in private.
The French striker of Real Madrid, Karim Benzema, injured in the thigh on Thursday during the match against Valencia (2-0) at the Santiago Bernabéu, will undergo tests on Saturday that will determine his participation or not in the Club World Cup taking place currently in Morocco.
The perpetrator of the intentional damage targeting the Muslim community of Saint-Juéry (Tarn) was sentenced this week to 10 months in prison with a suspended sentence. He is a 28-year-old cook, suffering from personality disorders.
The lifting of the parliamentary immunity of the European deputy Nicolas Bay, former cadre of the Rassemblement national, also vice-president of Reconquête! targeted by an investigation for incitement to racial hatred against Muslims, paves the way for the elected representative to be brought to justice.