Homicide

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• Six Arrested in Morocco for Fatal Stoning and Stabbing Over Love Triangle
  16 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  Elements of the Royal Gendarmerie arrested six individuals in Kelaât Sraghna. They stoned and stabbed to death a 26-year-old man. The origin of this murder was a simple love story.
  The victim and one of his attackers were fighting over the same woman named Chtiba, a resident of their douar, reports Assabah. The latter had called on the services of certain individuals with heavy criminal records to assassinate his rival.
  These individuals burst into the young man’s home. They stoned him (…)

• Montpellier Teenager’s Death: Family Urges Calm as Community Tensions Ease
  18 December 2022, by Ginette

  A few days after the death of Aymen, the teenager of Maghrebi origin hit by a car in the Mosson district, calls for calm have reduced tensions between Maghrebis and Gypsies.
  The most pressing call came from the family of the young boy who was killed. "We call for the greatest calm and express our trust in the institutions of the Republic, the police and the justice system, so that the perpetrator of the facts is arrested and tried," they wrote in a statement on Thursday. "I make a solemn (…)

• Moroccan Man Confesses to Killing Wife After Body Found Near Tangier
  27 May 2023, by Said

  A woman’s body in an advanced state of decomposition was found in the Houara forest, near Tangier. According to the first leads of the investigation, the victim, in her fifties, would have been killed by her husband.
  The disappearance of the victim dates back three weeks, reports the daily Al Akhbar, according to which her family did not hesitate to alert the authorities very quickly and to share photos of the missing person on social networks.
  As soon as her disappearance was (…)

• Moroccan Woman Sentenced to Life for 2012 Murder of Husband Buried in Garage
  23 May 2024, by Prince

  The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tétouan has just sentenced a Moroccan woman to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband.
  The judicial police of Tétouan announced on May 31, 2023 the arrest of a woman and her brother for their alleged involvement in the murder of the woman’s husband, which occurred in 2012 at the couple’s home in the Oued El Maleh neighborhood in Martil. The two suspects would have buried the victim’s body in the garage of the house before reporting (…)

• UK Murder Suspect Arrested in Morocco After 3-Year Manhunt
  1 February 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Moroccan police have arrested a man wanted for the murder of Robert Powell in Essex three years ago. Pending his extradition to the United Kingdom, he has been placed in detention.
  Suspected of the murder of Robert Powell, 50, a father of three, shot dead on Water Lane, Roydon, in June 2020, Nana Oppong, 42, was arrested in Morocco for the offenses of murder, possession of a firearm with the intent to endanger life and involuntary injury, reports EssexLive. He is the subject of an (…)

• Teen Fatally Stabbed by Mother in Belgian Suburb, Authorities Investigate
  2 September 2019, by Kamal

  In the suburbs of Liège, a Moroccan national committed the unthinkable by fatally stabbing her own child. The adolescent collapsed in the street after leaving his parents’ home, his body full of blood.
  On Wednesday, August 28th, in the Sainte-Walburge region, tensions had risen between Fatima and her son Bilal. In a rage, she had inflicted several knife wounds to his chest in the presence of his father and brothers.
  In trying to escape, the young Bilal had ultimately succumbed to his (…)

• Morocco’s High Court Upholds Death Sentences in Scandinavian Tourists’ Murder Case
  24 April 2021, by Jonas

  The Court of Cassation recently confirmed the death penalty for the three perpetrators of the murder of the two young Scandinavian tourists, reports kech24, citing sources close to the case, also specifying that the 20-year sentence was confirmed against the Spanish-Swiss, Kevin Zoller.
  The main perpetrators, Younès Ouziyad, Rachid Afadi and Abderrahmane Khayali, had been tried in July 2019 and were sentenced to death by the anti-terrorism court in Salé. In the same case, some 21 (…)

• Funeral Set for Teen Killed in Post-World Cup Match Incident in Montpellier
  18 December 2022, by Sylvanus

  The burial of Aymen, the 14-year-old boy hit and killed by a runaway car on Wednesday evening, rue de Barcelone, Cité de la Mosson, after the Morocco-France match, will take place at the Grammont funeral home.
  Hit by a car on the evening of the Bleus’ victory over the Atlas Lions in the 2022 Qatar World Cup semi-final, Aymen will be buried at the Grammont funeral home at 3pm, after the funeral prayer Salât al-janaza at the Great Mosque of La Paillade, reports Actu.fr. The family received (…)

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  17 November 2019, by Bladi.net
• Morocco: Four Arrested in Connection with Brutal Beheading of Woman in Ifrane
  4 January 2019, by Said

  After the arrest of the alleged killer of a young woman in the Ifrane region, the police announced the arrest of three other people for complicity.
  According to the newspaper Al Akhbar, the taxi driver who transported the victim on the day of the tragedy was arrested by the gendarmes. This is also the case for the employers of the alleged killer (a father and his son), who are in conflict with the victim over a plot of land.
  As for the alleged killer, he is said to have killed his (…)