Violence is raging in Kenitra. Two people were killed in less than a week in the city. A police officer was injured in the Al Hancha Bir Arrami area while on a mission with his colleagues.
In Hamburg, a German Daesh follower beheaded his wife, a woman of Moroccan origin. The alleged murderer, who recently converted to Islam, frequents a mosque known for its affiliation with the Turkish community and its radical orientation.
The appeal trial of the Moroccan Tarik Attar, sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance for the murder of Valentin Amrouche, began on Monday, May 3 before the Dijon Assize Court of Appeal. The victim’s grandparents want the sentence to be confirmed.
Charged with murder, Rachid M. will have spent four years in prison, victim of a judicial error for which he had been sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance, commuted to 20 years on appeal. His innocence was recognized after the real culprit confessed his crime.
On the run since December 2019, Youssef Ben Hamou , a Moroccan-born kickboxer, presented as a "dangerous criminal", was arrested in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht on April 29. Wanted for murder, drug trafficking and possession, armed robbery, illegal possession of firearms, etc., he had been sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of Ray Tensaini in the Netherlands.
The trial of a 26-year-old escort girl arrested as she was about to go to Morocco opens this Monday, May 3, before the Ain Assize Court. She is accused of having killed with a knife one of her clients, a 52-year-old IT specialist from Lyon, and of having used his bank card. She will be tried for "murder" and "fraud".
Halfway through the holy month of Ramadan, "Tramdina" just claimed a victim in Fez. The victim, a man in his forties and a security guard, did not survive a violent blow from a young man in his thirties after a disagreement deemed trivial by those around him.
The trial of Mokhtar Ammari , a 57-year-old Moroccan accused of killing his wife in an apartment in Fleuron, opened on Monday, April 26 before the Liège Assize Court. His defense believes he did not premeditate the murder of Fatima Khayer (48 years old).
Morocco, through the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), provided Spain with intelligence that helped it arrest the alleged perpetrator of the massacre of a family in Salé .
As he was heading to his parents’ home for the breaking of the fast, Karim was killed by a bullet to the head in Vaulx-en-Velin last Friday. A suspect was arrested and then taken into custody, and an investigation for murder has been opened.
Suspected of having killed six members of his family, and under an international arrest warrant issued against him by the Moroccan authorities, a man of Moroccan origin was arrested in Spain.
Two homicides were committed in Salé following violent disputes. A man was killed in the Bettana district and another succumbed to his injuries in the commune of Laayayda over unpaid rent.