French President Emmanuel Macron was in open dialogue last Friday with eleven young Africans from Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, or Mali, during the new-format Africa-France summit held in Montpellier, to which no African state was invited. On this occasion, he paid tribute to dual nationals.
The day after the appointment of the new Moroccan government , Washington, Paris and Madrid sent their congratulations to the new team led by Aziz Akhannouch. They all expressed the wish to see bilateral relations strengthened with the kingdom.
France has removed Morocco from the "red zone" characterized by particularly active circulation of the Covid-19 epidemic and classified it in the orange zone. Travelers from the kingdom will no longer be subject to quarantine upon arrival in French territory.
The elements of the RAID, the BRI of Rouen and the investigators of the departmental security service managed to dismantle a vast drug trafficking network with its rear base in Morocco, after two years of investigation. In total, nineteen people were arrested - including an elected official -, one million euros, fifteen kilos of heroin, vehicles and weapons were seized.
The Quai d’Orsay announced this Friday, through the voice of its deputy spokesman, that France reaffirms its "commitment to deepening the exceptional partnership with Morocco in all areas".
Claude Gorsky, a retiree, was tried before the Assize Court of Mont-de-Marsan to answer for the racist murder of his neighbor, Saïd El Barkaoui, who died a few days after he shot him five times in Ychoux (Landes). He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
While he was determined to run the Marathon des Sables barefoot in the Moroccan Sahara, Loury Lag, the 35-year-old French explorer, was "disqualified by medical decision". He is thus forced to abandon the race.
The Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT) and Moroccan professionals are taking part in the 42nd edition of the International Tourism Trade Fair "IFTM Top Resa", a meeting that is being held from October 5 to 8 in Paris. Objective: to reconquer the French market.
More than 4 out of 10 French people are in favor of zero immigration in France, according to a poll conducted by the CSA Institute. The issue will likely be addressed during the 2022 presidential campaign.
Called up to represent the French U20 national football team, Amir Richardson opts for Morocco. The 19-year-old player who plays for Le Havre should replace the Bordeaux defender Timothée Pembélé, but he has declined the offer.
The police of the Central Office for the Repression of Major Financial Delinquency (OCRGDF) dismantled a vast money laundering network between France and Morocco, via Spain. At the helm, a Chinese who collected the cash from cannabis trafficking to reintroduce it into the regular economic circuit through purchases from Chinese wholesalers in Aubervilliers.
France still refuses to grant visas to Moroccan international carriers, thus taking Moroccan exports hostage. The Moroccan Association of Exporters (ASMEX) is sounding the alarm and calling on the Moroccan authorities to urgently unblock the situation.