Kidnapping

Articles

• 25-Year-Old Arrested in Khémisset for Alleged Kidnapping and Assault of Two Minors
  22 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Judicial Police Brigade of the provincial district of the Sûreté de Khémisset arrested a 25-year-old individual on Thursday, September 19. He would be involved in a case of kidnapping, sequestration, and indecent assault against two minors.
  His arrest follows information received, stating that he exposed the two victims to kidnapping, sequestration and indecent assault in an abandoned house, according to the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), in a press release. (…)

• Family Arrested for Staging Child Kidnapping and Ransom Scheme in Morocco
  4 October 2019, by Kamal

  The Bir Jdid Police Brigade succeeded in arresting 2 women and 1 man from the same family for their alleged involvement in a case of kidnapping, extortion and launching an alert for a supposed hostage-taking.
  According to a press release from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), a false alert was received by the police, reporting the kidnapping of a child in the Bir Jdid region.
  The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of 60,000 dirhams from the father in exchange for his (…)

• Moroccan Man Still Missing in France One Year After Mysterious Disappearance
  27 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  According to the account of the facts, Mehdi Abiddar lived in an apartment with his mother. On October 26, 2018, he went for a walk. After a visit to a shisha bar, the young man went missing, reports the newspaper La Provence.
  The investigators of the Judicial Police of Avignon had found the trace of Mehdi in a house in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, rented by one of the three brothers who had left hastily for Morocco. Mehdi had a dispute with the latter. The front door, the facade and a window of (…)

• Woman Arrested in Morocco for Falsely Reporting Daughter’s Kidnapping on Social Media
  11 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  The judicial police elements of Laâyoune, in coordination with their colleagues from the city of Tiflet, proceeded on Sunday, November 10 to the arrest of a 26-year-old woman. She is accused of having reported a fictitious crime of kidnapping.
  She is paying the price for reporting a fictitious crime of kidnapping. The national security services had carefully watched and worked on a video reporting a fictitious crime, broadcast on social networks, according to a statement from the [General (…)

• Moroccan Serial Kidnapper Arrested: Targeted 18 Minors Near Schools
  15 November 2019, by Kamal

  Prosecuted for kidnapping, sequestration, rape, violence and assault and identity theft, the kidnapper of 18 young girls in several Moroccan localities was finally arrested by the services of the Royal Gendarmerie on Saturday, November 9.
  Subject to several national arrest warrants, the individual, born in 1987 in the Chiahna district in the suburbs of Skhirat, was posing as an important personality.
  He had taken to roaming near schools in a rented luxury car to attract the attention of (…)

• Major Drug Bust in Morocco: 6 Arrested in International Trafficking Ring
  4 January 2020, by Ginette

  The judicial police of the provincial security district of Tan-Tan has carried out a major crackdown. On Friday morning, it proceeded to the arrest of six individuals for their alleged links with a criminal network active in the international trafficking of drugs, psychotropic substances, and attempted voluntary manslaughter with a firearm.
  Among the six arrested persons, there is an individual who was the subject of a nationwide search for kidnapping, sequestration and ransom demand. (…)

• Baby Trafficking Ring Exposed in Ceuta, Spanning Morocco and Spain
  12 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  A criminal network specializing in the kidnapping, theft and sale of newborns has been denounced in Ceuta (Sebta), by a Moroccan NGO that is involved in human rights defense actions. The testimony of the mother of a girl has made it possible to realize that the network has ramifications in Spain.
  According to Lahcen Aqbayu, president of the association "Karama for the defense of human rights", it all started with the testimony of a Moroccan woman, the mother of a newborn, who denounced (…)

• Mossad Linked to 1965 Disappearance of Moroccan Politician Mehdi Ben Barka, Book Claims
  16 February 2020, by Kamal

  In his book "Rise and kill first", published in 2018, Israeli journalist and writer Ronin Bergman lifted the veil on the kidnapping and murder of Mehdi Ben Barka.
  In a statement to Europe 1 radio, the New York Times reporter said that "the Israeli Mossad did not participate in the kidnapping and torture of Mehdi Ben Barka, but had followed his trail and helped the Moroccans get rid of his remains".
  "Sprinkled with a chemical substance to accelerate its decomposition, the body of the (…)

• Moroccan Police Arrest Two Suspects in Kidnapping and Rape of Teen Girl
  4 March 2020, by Kamal

  The police services of the city of Laâyoune succeeded in arresting two individuals, in their twenties, for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and rape of a 15-year-old girl.
  According to the complaint filed by the victim, the two suspects had kidnapped the minor near her family home, before forcibly driving her to an unknown location in a car.
  Held captive for 48 hours, since February 24, the young girl had been sexually abused, under threat of a knife, before miraculously (…)

• 55 Years On, Lawyer Seeks Truth in Moroccan Dissident’s Paris Disappearance
  5 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  The mystery remains intact, 55 years after the kidnapping and murder of Mehdi Ben Barka, an intellectual and political figure of the anti-colonial movement, and opponent of King Hassan II, on October 29, 1965, near Paris. Maurice Buttin, 91, the family’s lawyer, continues to fight for the truth to emerge.
  "It is a fight for justice and truth," Maurice Buttin told AFP. This lawyer who has been investigating the Ben Barka case for 55 years, says he is still determined to provide answers to (…)