Kidnapping

Articles

• Belgian-Moroccan Suspect in Child Kidnapping Case Vanishes Before Trial
  11 April, by Sylvanus

  While he is due to appear before the Tongeren Assize Court on April 22, a 32-year-old Belgian-Moroccan has disappeared from the radar. This man accused of kidnapping a child is untraceable in Tongeren.
  Will Abderrahman Laktit be present at his trial for kidnapping on April 22 before the Tongeren Assize Court? Nothing is certain. "We think he is on the run," it is said. The units went to Abderrahman’s home and noticed that there was no one there. The thirtysomething is accused of a double (…)

• Two French Suspects Arrested in Marbella for 2020 Kidnapping of Dutch Businessman
  16 February 2023, by Prince

  After two and a half years of investigation, the police arrested in Marbella two individuals of French origin for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Jamal O., the Dutch businessman of Moroccan origin, on August 22, 2020.
  Jamal was kidnapped as he was returning from a restaurant in Puerto Banus in Marbella with his wife and their five children. Their vehicle, a Mercedes G-Wagon, was intercepted by two vehicles equipped with police sirens from which eight armed men in police (…)

• Child Abduction in Morocco: Student Kidnapped, Drugged, and Released After Blood Taken
  15 June 2024, by Sylvanus

  Child abductions persist in southeastern Morocco. The latest is that of a student enrolled in a college in the town of Boudnib, located 90 km from the province of Errachidia. He was kidnapped just after leaving the school.
  The kidnapping took place this week. After leaving the college, a student was kidnapped before being drugged and taken unconscious by the kidnapper. According to local sources, the kidnapper, whose identity remains unknown, took quantities of the child’s blood in an (…)

• Moroccan Man Escapes Kidnappers in Spain After Two-Day Ordeal and Ransom Demand
  9 April, by Prince

  The Guardia Civil has arrested three people for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and sequestration of a man of Moroccan origin in Oropesa del Mar (Castellón).
  The three suspects, two Moroccans and a Spaniard, kidnapped the victim, then held him captive for two days in an apartment where they forced him to provide his bank details to empty his accounts. They also recorded videos of the handcuffed Moroccan that they then sent to his family in Morocco to demand a ransom of 30,000 (…)

• Moroccan Soldier Gets 5-Year Sentence for Sexual Harassment and Attempted Kidnapping
  9 January 2019, by Said

  A soldier has just been sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Fès court for sexual harassment and attempted kidnapping.
  The facts date back to last November and the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) had communicated on this case, indicating that a man had filed a complaint against three individuals whom he accuses of sexual harassment against his wife following "an incident that turned into a confrontation with the suspects who then handcuffed the lady and forcibly removed (…)

• Moroccan Police Refute Claims of Attempted Rape, Confirm Robbery Report by Italian Student in Rabat
  28 February 2019, by Said

  The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) has just denied the information published by the press according to which an Italian national was the victim of an attempted rape and kidnapping in Rabat.
  "The only complaint received by the Rabat police prefecture is related to an attempted violent theft filed by an Italian student on an internship in Morocco, against three individuals who, on board a light vehicle, tried to rob her around 2:30 a.m., at the level of the al Adarissa (…)

• Marrakech Police Dismantle Violent Robbery Gang, Arrest Key Suspect
  4 April 2019, by Said

  They should no longer be rampant in Marrakech. The police have just announced the arrest of several individuals suspected of being the perpetrators of several violent robberies in recent months in the ochre city.
  In a press release, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) indicates that it has dismantled "a criminal gang specializing in armed robbery, one of whose members was the subject of a national arrest warrant". The latter, who recently left prison, is accused of robbery (…)

• Belgian Court Halts Forced Return of 4-Year-Old to Morocco Amid Custody Dispute
  21 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  While her parents are divorced, a 4-year-old Belgian-Moroccan girl living with her father in Belgium, was about to be returned to Casablanca at the request of her mother. Indeed, after long months of silence, the latter filed a complaint against her ex-husband for kidnapping.
  In this rather farcical case reported by the RTBF website, it is the innocent little girl who would be the victim of all the moral torture that her already separated parents are indulging in.
  The father of the (…)

• Woman Critically Injured After Being Thrown from Speeding Car in Moroccan City
  24 August 2020, by Kamal

  A woman was thrown from a car, which was driving at high speed, in the center of Fqih Ben Salah. Seriously injured, the victim had lost consciousness.
  The incident occurred on Saturday evening in front of many walkers and cafe customers, reports the Akhbarona website.
  A crowd then rushed around the woman, about forty years old, to come to her aid, while waiting for the emergency services to arrive. Later, an ambulance took her to the hospital emergency room.
  An investigation has been (…)

• Moroccan Court Sentences 14 in High-Profile Rape and Kidnapping Case
  22 September 2021, by Sylvanus

  The Court of Appeal of Beni Mellal sentenced, on Tuesday, September 21, 14 defendants to various prison terms for charges of "rape, kidnapping, sequestration, tattooing and human trafficking" in the case of Khadija O. alias "the tattoo girl". In total, 226 years of imprisonment were handed out.
  In August 2018, Khadija, then 17 years old, had been kidnapped, sequestered and raped for two months by a dozen men aged 18 to 28 from her village of Oulad Ayad, near Beni Mellal. In a video that (…)