Two foreign tourists filmed a man demanding an unjustified sum from them in the medina of Marrakech. Posted on social media, the footage enabled police to locate the suspect.
The national identity card number (CIN) can facilitate searches launched by Dutch municipalities into houses and plots of land owned in Morocco by social assistance beneficiaries. Its use nevertheless remains subject to the consent of the person concerned.
In the Netherlands, repeated holidays at the same address in Morocco can attract the municipality’s attention. Social assistance recipients may be questioned about where they stay and their dates of entry and exit.
The strict unemployment rate fell to 9.5 % in Morocco. However, this improvement does not tell the whole story: a new indicator that includes the unemployed, underemployed people and the potential workforce still reaches 18.9 %.
A parking attendant was arrested in Marrakech after a video was released showing him demanding 40 dirhams from a motorist . He allegedly also demanded the vehicle keys.
Driss Atounane, 54, died after being struck in a tram in Evere while defending an assaulted passenger. His son and the victim’s daughter pay tribute to a man unable to turn away from someone in danger.
Deprived of water for several days and facing heat, families in Fès had to buy bottled water or travel to distant water sources. An association is calling for an investigation into the management of this new crisis.
Driss Atounane, a 54-year-old Brussels merchant, died after trying to defend a passenger who was being attacked on a tram in Evere. Struck violently on the head, this father of a family fell into a coma. His alleged attacker was incarcerated.
Gendarmes seized nearly two million dirhams hidden in the luggage of a passenger on a coach traveling from Casablanca to Tan-Tan. An investigation has been opened to determine the origin and destination of this money.
A family from Tangier discovered that their loved one’s remains had been mistakenly handed over to another family , who had already buried it. The circumstances of this serious mix-up remain unknown.
Morocco’s unemployment rate fell from 13% to 10.8 % with the implementation of a new HCP survey. This dramatic drop does not mean, however, that hundreds of thousands of people have found jobs. It is mainly the result of a new way of counting the unemployed.
Casablanca police have arrested a hotel employee suspected of stealing money from the rooms of Super Falcons players. A sum of 10,000 dirhams, obtained from the conversion of stolen dollars, was seized.