From 2010, Rachida Dati was employed by Renault, who paid her 900,000 euros. The justice system smells an rather illegal contract, and perhaps a fictitious job, just like journalists Gérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme who investigated the case.
The court in Nîmes last Tuesday sentenced a father and his partner to 18 months in prison with probation each, in a case of forced marriage organized in Morocco.
The Covid-19 pandemic has had serious repercussions on the French economy, with among other things, the loss of thousands of jobs for Moroccans living abroad (MREs) working in the service sector. In contrast, dozens of Moroccan doctors are being recruited to fill the deficit in hospitals.
Two French journalists, Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, are under threat of a trial in a Paris court for " blackmail ". They are accused of having tried to extort millions of euros from King Mohammed VI in exchange for abandoning a book supposedly embarrassing for the kingdom.
The Chief of the Defense Staff (CEMA), Army General François Lecointre met on Thursday with several Moroccan civilian and military officials. The strengthening of relations between the two countries was among the topics discussed.
The closure of Moroccan borders has hit hard French airports that offer air links to Morocco . This is the case, for example, of the one in Occitanie.
La Méridionale is preparing to launch a regular ropax line between Marseille and Tangier. Announced for late October or early November, it will offer three rotations per week.
Franco-Moroccan Bertrand-Kamal Loudrhiri, a participant in the latest season of Koh-Lanta, currently airing on TF1, died on Wednesday, September 9 from cancer at the age of 31. The channel presented its condolences to his family, evoking the memory of a courageous man who faced the disease with dignity.
Anthony Lazarevitch, 36, and Gilbert Chikli, 55, considered the masterminds of a vast fraud targeting personalities including King Mohammed VI , were respectively sentenced on appeal in Paris to seven and ten years in prison with a two-thirds security sentence. The two defendants had posed as Jean-Yves Le Drian, then Minister of Defense.
About thirty Moroccan minors who arrived in France in October 2016 live in the Goutte d’Or neighborhood where they are known to be involved in thefts and violent assaults. Olivier Peyroux, a sociologist with the Trajectoires association, talks about these unaccompanied minors.
The President of the National Foundation of Museums (FNM) was received, on Tuesday at the Élysée, for a working lunch with Brigitte Macron. The discussions with Mehdi Qotbi focused on the Eugène Delacroix exhibition scheduled to be held in April 2021 in Morocco.
France, through its ambassador Hélène Le Gal in Rabat, has welcomed the efforts of the kingdom in its management of the health crisis due to Covid-19 and at the same time affirmed its determination to work for the strengthening of the friendship and cooperation relations between the two countries.