After the shooting death of a 21-year-old Moroccan in Bolbec (Seine-Maritime), on June 9, 2021, three individuals were arrested, placed in custody, indicted and incarcerated. Among them, two brothers who are cousins of the victim.
The Spanish National Police, in collaboration with the French police, dismantled in the Axarquía region of Malaga, a criminal organization that uses a giant drone, equipped to transport hashish and marijuana from Morocco to Spain for distribution in France.
The Bayonne Judicial Court sentenced a young Moroccan to 6 months in prison on Monday, July 12, for a series of pickpocketing incidents.
The airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) offers travelers from List B countries, including France, Spain and Tunisia, the possibility to change their flight dates free of charge. A decision that follows the latest update of Lists A and B established by Morocco as part of the reopening of its airspace.
Olympique Lyonnais would be interested in the possibility of recovering Hakim Ziyech , lacking playing time at Chelsea. An idea that does not displease the Moroccan international who will be able to relaunch himself by finding his former coach Peter Bosz from Ajax. But the French club is facing the huge budget of the striker.
Morocco is now France’s top customer in Africa in terms of arms acquisitions, dethroning Algeria. This emerges from the annual report on arms exports in 2020 that the French Ministry of the Armed Forces sent to Parliament.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, indicated on Friday that it is not up to France to mediate between Spain and Morocco. He remains confident that the two countries will overcome this crisis through "dialogue" and in a "serene" manner.
Morocco has updated its List B, which includes all countries experiencing the spread of variants or the lack of accurate statistics on the epidemiological situation. Three new countries, including France, are now on this list.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has announced the date of Eid al-Adha in France. In this context of Covid-19, it calls on Muslims to be "extremely vigilant".
The municipal council of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) took place under police protection last week. The reason is that tempers flared during a deliberation on the financing of a solidarity project for Sahrawi children in Tindouf.
As Eid al-Adha approaches, former French actress Brigitte Bardot, engaged for animal welfare for decades, has expressed her anger at the government’s silence on the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses, the ritual sacrifice of Eid, etc.
Faced with the spread of the Delta variant in Spain and Portugal, France has advised its citizens against traveling to these two countries. Will it make the same recommendation regarding travel to Morocco, where the same variant is also circulating?