Homicide

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• Domestic Violence Tragedy in Spain: Man Kills Wife in Front of Children, Surrenders to Police
  2 May 2022, by Prince

  A 38-year-old Moroccan turned himself in to the Civil Guard on Monday after killing his 44-year-old Moroccan wife in front of their three children, at their home on Ronda San Julián street in Tarancón (Cuenca).
  The lifeless body of the woman was found in the home after her husband turned himself in to the Civil Guard for his crime. The couple’s three children (5, 4 and 2 years old), who were in the apartment at the time of the events, were taken care of by social services, reports Nius. (…)

• Investigation Links Two Fatal Shootings in Paris Suburb, Suspect Arrested
  5 March 2024, by Sylvanus

  The investigators of the criminal brigade of the judicial police of Versailles are working to solve the murder of Moustapha, the 57-year-old Moroccan, shot dead in front of his children in the night of Wednesday, March 1 to Thursday, March 2, 2023, in the Muette district of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise) and the murder of Amine Benouda, a close associate commissioned a year earlier.
  Is there a link between the murder of Amine, 26, shot dead in a parking lot on Paul-Langevin Street in (…)

• Teen Killed, Four Injured in Shooting at Poitiers Snack Bar
  2 November 2024, by Said

  A 15-year-old teenager, Anis, was killed by gunfire on Thursday evening in the Place de Coimbra in the Couronneries neighborhood of Poitiers. The tragedy occurred around 10:45 p.m. when a man opened fire on a group of young people sitting at a snack bar.
  Four other teenagers were injured. The alleged aggressor would be a man in his twenties who recently arrived in the neighborhood and is trying to establish himself in the drug trade, reports La Nouvelle République.
  According to (…)

• Moroccan Mother of Three Killed in Domestic Violence Case Shocks Spanish Town
  3 May 2022, by Prince

  Ouardia, a 43-year-old Moroccan woman, was killed on Monday by her 38-year-old husband, who then turned himself in to the Civil Guard to confess his crime. The news of her death has caused emotion in Spain, as the victim left behind three minor children aged 5, 4 and 2 years old.
  "The lives of three children have changed in a second, they find themselves without a mother’s love... We will always carry you in our hearts. We cry with sadness, helplessness and injustice," the Gloria Fuertes (…)

• Moroccan Teacher Arrested for Wife’s Murder After Discovering Alleged Affair
  8 November 2020, by Sylvanus

  A 47-year-old teacher working in a school in the commune of Jemaat Hodrane in the province of Khemisset has murdered his wife, a 34-year-old seamstress, in front of her children in Tiflet. Arrested, he claims to have discovered erotic exchanges between his wife and another man on a social network.
  The arrest of the perpetrator of the crime took place at a checkpoint at the entrance of the city as he was trying to flee, reports Assabah. During his interrogation, he confessed. He recounts (…)

• La Rochelle Mourns Homeless Moroccan Man Stabbed to Death, Community Organizes Memorial March
  13 August 2021, by Sylvanus

  A white march is organized in La Rochelle to pay tribute to Saïd, a Moroccan homeless man found dead on August 6 on the site of the Gabut industrial wasteland. The judicial police are pursuing the investigation opened following the death of the quadragenarian. For her part, Jamila, the victim’s sister, wants to recover her brother’s body, currently at the Poitiers hospital, to bury him in Meknes, Morocco.
  The lifeless body of Saïd Ghame, a 48-year-old homeless Moroccan, was discovered on (…)

• Moroccan Man Arrested for Fatal Stabbing of Wife in Chichaoua Province
  4 February 2024, by Prince

  The elements of the Royal Gendarmerie arrested in the village of Ahmar, in the commune of Ait Amira in the province of Chichaoua, a man accused of having stabbed his wife to death.
  The agents were alerted by the couple’s neighbors who saw the husband leaving the house in a state of distress and discovered the woman lying in her own blood. Once on the scene, the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie proceeded to arrest the man.
  The accused was placed in custody on the orders of the competent (…)

• French Man Charged with Murder After Wife’s Death in House Fire
  9 December 2020, by Sylvanus

  The facts date back to July 11, 2016. The firefighters had been alerted, late in the evening, for a fire in a house, in Aunay-sous-Crécy, reports L’Écho républicain. A neighbor had managed to extinguish the fire before their arrival. When they entered the apartment, they found the carbonized body of the septuagenarian’s wife. A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis and confined to a wheelchair. "It’s a gas leak," assures Driss Ben Hammadi, adding that he was doing DIY in the basement of (…)

• Moroccan Butcher Arrested After Beheading Wife Near Safi
  24 March 2019, by Amine

  A butcher has just slit his wife’s throat and cut off her head in Jamaat shaïm in the vicinity of Safi. He is said to be suffering from psychiatric disorders.
  The incident is said to have occurred last Wednesday according to the newspaper Aujourd’hui le Maroc, which specifies in a rather indelicate manner: "In Jamaat Shaïm, located about fifty kilometers from the city of Safi, a young man put an end to the life of his wife, on Wednesday morning, by slitting her throat like a sheep." (…)

• Appeal Trial Delayed for 24 Accused in Moroccan Tourist Murders
  27 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  The appeal trial of the 24 accused in the murder of the two Scandinavian tourists in the Imlil region of El Haouz province has been postponed, according to the Criminal Chamber (2nd degree) in charge of Terrorism Affairs at the Annex of the Court of Appeal in Salé.
  This decision by the Court is justified by the absence of interpreters, motivating its decision by the need to ensure the conditions for a fair trial, to allow each of the accused to defend their rights by all means and not to (…)