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• Man Dies After Police Check in Béziers, France Amid Curfew Enforcement
  11 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  According to prosecutor Raphaël Balland, the municipal police officers had carried out his check around 10:20 pm on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in the streets of Béziers, where a curfew is in effect from 9 pm. Mohamed, a man convicted eight times since 2005, died after "more than three quarters of an hour of resuscitation attempts in the premises of the Béziers police station".
  The three police officers heard in this case said that the thirty-year-old had "refused the check", reports Le (…)

• Nîmes Community Protests Prosecutor’s Claims in Fatal Shooting of 21-Year-Old
  17 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  The relatives of the 21-year-old young man killed by a bullet to the heart in the Chemin-Bas d’Avignon reject the allegations of the Nîmes public prosecutor, Eric Maurel, according to which the initial elements of the investigation would indicate that Anis Kambouch would be involved in "illicit activities".
  According to testimonies from friends in the Chemin-Bas d’Avignon neighborhood, this young man of Algerian origin was never involved in "illicit activities". He was a good young man, (…)

• Moroccan Authorities Probe Alleged Murder Attempt on Ex-Lawmaker in Sidi Slimane
  17 October 2021, by Sylvanus

  The royal gendarmerie of El Ksiba in the province of Sidi Slimane is investigating the attempted murder of former deputy Driss Radi and former leader of the Constitutional Union (UC). Several hearings have already been recorded.
  Former deputy Driss Radi had accused his brother Said of attempted murder with his car during the last days of the election campaign for the last elections and had filed a complaint against him, reports Assabah. In this complaint, he had requested "the opening of (…)

• Spanish Officials Criticize Morocco for Delays in Airport Escape Investigation
  14 November 2021, by Prince

  The Spanish authorities are continuing the investigations to find the 12 Moroccan migrants who took advantage of an emergency landing to escape from Palma airport in Majorca. They denounce the lack of cooperation from Morocco, which is slow to provide all the data on the fugitives.
  "The delays recorded on the Moroccan side to provide key data on the fugitives from the patera plane have complicated the investigations," indicate sources close to the case to ABC. "The effectiveness of the (…)

• Study: 90% of Moroccan Children Use Smartphones Daily, Raising Parental Concerns
  21 January 2022, by Armel

  Almost all Moroccan children use a smartphone daily. An addiction that increasingly worries parents, overwhelmed by the evolution of digital technology.
  According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky and the Immersion firm, nearly 9 out of 10 Moroccan children use a smartphone every day and 68% of them have their own device, while 46% of parents would not know how to react if their child was a victim of cyberbullying.
  According to the study results, screens are too present in children’s (…)

• Former Belgian Soccer Star Marouane Fellaini Involved in Brussels Nightclub Brawl
  22 January 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Belgian police are investigating a fight involving former Belgian international of Moroccan origin, Marouane Fellaini, as well as one of his brothers.
  Marouane Fellaini, currently in Belgium after the end of the season in the Chinese championship, one of his brothers and two other individuals are involved in a fight that took place in the night from Friday to Saturday in a restaurant/nightclub in Brussels, reports the Flemish media Het Nieuwsblad. Called, the police intervened shortly (…)

• Dutch-Moroccan Drug Cartel Suspected in Attack on Spanish Far-Right Politician
  6 February 2024, by Prince

  The Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Netherlands and Belgium, would be behind the assassination attempt targeting the 78-year-old Spanish politician, Alejo Vidal Quadras.
  According to sources close to the investigation opened in this case, the Moroccan mafia active in the Netherlands would have recruited Mehrez Ayari, a 27-year-old French of Tunisian origin living in Paris, to target Quadras, a former leader of the Spanish Popular (…)

• 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 (…)

• Former Moroccan Official Dismisses ’Mocro Maffia’ as Dutch Political Fabrication
  19 August 2024, by Prince

  The former leader of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) and former president of the Tangier-Tetouan region, Ilyas Omari, recently claimed that the Mocro Maffia is a "construction of Dutch politicians".
  The Mocro Maffia is only a "construction of Dutch politicians," said Ilyas Omari in an interview with Thierry Oberlé, special correspondent of the Parisian weekly Le Point in Morocco to investigate this Moroccan mafia specialized in international drug trafficking and organized (…)

• Inmate Escapes During Consulate Visit in Final Months of 15-Year Sentence
  21 December 2024, by Sylvanus

  While serving the last months of a 15-year sentence handed down in Essonne at the Poissy prison, an inmate uses subterfuges to escape during an appointment at the Moroccan consulate in Pontoise. He is the subject of an investigation for organized prison escape, entrusted to the Brigade for the Repression of Banditry in Versailles.
  The scene took place on Friday late in the morning in the premises of the Moroccan consulate in Pontoise. An inmate from the central prison of Poissy, the (…)