Homicide

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• Moroccan Man Sentenced to 29 Years for Fatal Burglary in Spain
  21 October 2019, by Kamal

  The Criminal Chamber of the city of Granada, in southern Spain, has just sentenced a Moroccan national to 29 years in prison, for voluntary manslaughter and burglary.
  The 22-year-old man had strangled an elderly person at his home, which he had come to burgle. He confessed, following the results of the DNA tests carried out on the samples taken from the crime scene.
  Having been surprised in the middle of the burglary, the young man had preferred to cover up his act with a crime. The (…)

• Court Reviews Omar Raddad Case: New DNA Evidence in Infamous French Murder Trial
  24 November 2021, by Ginette

  The Court of Cassation is examining this Thursday the case of Omar Raddad, the Moroccan gardener convicted for the murder of Ghislaine Marchal, and who was pardoned without being exonerated. With the appearance of new elements, Omar Raddad, who is determined to prove his innocence in this case, has made a second request for a review of his conviction.
  The Omar Raddad case is one of the most famous criminal cases in France. Designated thirty years ago as the perpetrator of the murder of (…)

• French Court to Rule on Retrial for Omar Raddad in Decades-Old Murder Case
  26 November 2021, by Ginette

  Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad finally obtains examination of his request for a retrial. The French justice system examined this request in camera on Thursday and will deliver its verdict on December 16.
  Omar Raddad was convicted in 1994 to 18 years in prison for the 1991 murder of his employer Ghislaine Marchal. Four years later, he was granted a partial pardon by President Jacques Chirac, then a conditional release. Pardoned but still not exonerated, the Moroccan gardener is trying to (…)

• Morocco Court Upholds Death Sentences in 2018 Scandinavian Tourist Murders
  30 September 2022, by Sylvanus

  A new hearing took place before the Court of Cassation in Rabat as part of the case of the murder, in 2018, of two Scandinavian tourists in the Imlil region.
  The justice system has rejected the appeal in cassation of four accused among the 24 prosecuted for the murder, in December 2018, of two Scandinavian tourists in the Imlil region, reports the Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar. Last Wednesday before the criminal chamber in charge of terrorism cases, the presiding judge upheld the death (…)

• Brussels to Honor Moroccan Couple Slain in 2002 Hate Crime with Street Renaming
  10 May 2019, by Amine

  Ahmed Isnasni and his wife Habiba El-Hajji were killed in 2002 by their far-right neighbor, a criminal and racist act that shook, among others, the entire community of Schaerbeek. A street will bear their names if the procedure in this direction bears fruit. Or rather their first names.
  According to the newspaper La Dernière Heure: "On Wednesday evening, the Schaerbeek municipal council gave the green light to the tribute that would be paid to the Schaerbeek couple murdered by a racist (…)

• Fatal Shooting in Nador: 30-Year-Old Man Killed in Suspected Gang-Related Attack
  23 May 2022, by Sylvanus

  The Royal Gendarmerie is conducting an investigation to determine the exact circumstances of the murder of a 30-year-old man in Nador. The thirty-year-old was shot dead on Friday by unidentified individuals.
  According to witnesses to the scene, one or more people opened fire on the man they were chasing in three sedans in the Tiztouine region, near Nador, reports Alyaoum24. The man died on the spot. His body was transferred to the city morgue.
  The Royal Gendarmerie has opened an (…)

• DNA Evidence Prompts Push for Retrial in Infamous Omar Raddad Murder Case
  23 June 2021, by Sylvanus

  A new trial could open after the discovery of traces of a male DNA not belonging to the former Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad, convicted and then pardoned for the death of Ghislaine Marchal, killed on June 23, 1991 in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes). His lawyer Sylvie Noachovitch has decided to file a request for a retrial of the 1994 trial this Thursday, June 24.
  New developments in the Omar Raddad case. His lawyer will file a request for a retrial of the 1994 trial this Thursday following (…)

• Moroccan Woman Strangles Husband Over Spain Work Dispute, Buries Body Near Home
  21 November 2022, by Sylvanus

  A woman killed her husband by strangling him at the family home in a rural commune in Sidi Kacem. The refusal of the father of her three children to let her go work in Spain would be at the origin of this meticulously planned homicide.
  Terrible news in a rural commune in Sidi Kacem. A woman killed her husband with whom she has lived for 20 years by strangling him with a cable while he was in a deep sleep due to his presumed state of drunkenness, reports the Arabic daily Al Akhbar. She (…)

• Deadly Stabbing Over Cigarettes Shocks Moroccan City of Beni Mellal
  19 March 2019, by Amine

  A man in his forties took his last breath at the regional hospital in Beni Mellal after being stabbed several times in various parts of his body. This happened last Friday.
  Several "friends" were, according to Alyaoum24, drinking together when one of them, because of a pack of cigarettes, threw himself at another with the apparent intention of taking his life, and several stabs were then inflicted by the criminal.
  The victim was taken to the hospital. But the hemorrhage was so severe and (…)

• Moroccan Man Faces Trial for Brutal 2014 Murder of Wife in France
  14 January 2019, by Said

  The trial of Abdennbi Choua, accused of savagely killing his wife in September 2014, has opened today at the Hérault Assize Court.
  Incarcerated since that date, the 50-year-old man claims his innocence and says that on that day, he had taken his children to school before going to his workplace, reports France Bleu. Around 12:30 p.m., he received a call from the teacher telling him that his wife had not come to pick up the children from school.
  He claims to have gone home before (…)