French police intercepted a truck in central France transporting more than 200 kilos of Moroccan cannabis resin hidden in cherry tomatoes destined for the United Kingdom. The goods were seized and five people were arrested.
France has decided to tighten the granting of visas for Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians, thus carrying out its threat . It had warned that it would drastically reduce (50%) visas if Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia did not agree to issue the consular laissez-passer necessary for the return of their nationals rejected from France.
Andra Matei, the lawyer of French comedian Brahim Bouhlel, sentenced on April 21 to eight months in prison for "his bad joke", is fighting to get her client out of trouble. She intends to file a fourth request for a royal pardon in October.
Under threat of expulsion, a Moroccan family is receiving the support of the people of Aubenas. The Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (Mrap) organized a rally on Saturday, September 25, attended by about forty people. They all call for the granting of a residence permit to this family.
Moroccans are among the foreign workers naturalized in France last week for their civic engagement during the health crisis.
Makram Akrout, 42, was awarded the prize for the "best baguette in Paris" last Saturday. A consecration for this former Tunisian undocumented immigrant and son of a baker.
The Correctional Court of Saint-Étienne has pronounced an acquittal in favor of Larbi Marchiche, rector of the great Mohammed-VI mosque. He was being tried for illegally bringing Moroccan craftsmen to France for the completion of the place of worship.
The profile of Brahim K., a radicalized young Moroccan-Tunisian, worries the French investigators. He will be arrested on September 7, the eve of the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks.
The Lisieux court sentenced on Friday, September 17, 2021, a 24-year-old Moroccan in an irregular situation to one year in prison for violence and death threats against his partner, a mother of two minor daughters. He is considered a "serious threat" to his fellow citizens.
In Avignon, Marwa Srghir, a Moroccan who arrived in France four years ago, is having trouble receiving care and getting her three-and-a-half-year-old twins treated. The reason is that doctors refuse to take them as patients.
The French customs, in coordination with the Toulon public prosecutor and the maritime customs operational center in Marseille (CODM), managed to seize four tons of Moroccan cannabis resin hidden in a fishing vessel south of the economic zone of France in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Council of State validated on Friday, September 24, the dissolution of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) - reconstituted in Belgium under the name of the Collective against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) - and of BarakaCity, enacted by the government in December 2020 after the assassination of Samuel Paty.