Kidnapping

Articles

• Morocco Divided Over Death Penalty After Child’s Murder Shocks Nation
  14 September 2020, by Jérôme

  The death of little Adnane has awakened the hostilities between pro- and anti-death penalty advocates in Morocco. Within Moroccan society and on the web, extremists, death penalty supporters and moderates calling for tougher laws are clashing.
  It was a DGSN press release on Saturday morning, announcing the worst that opened the debate: rape and premeditated murder. The child’s body was buried under a tree in a park in the same neighborhood where he lived. Society is raging, the web is (…)

• Radicalized Uncle Arrested in Kidnapping of 12-Year-Old Belgian Boy
  23 September 2020, by Sylvanus

  The police used strategy to succeed in arresting the uncle of Ilias Chahdi, the 12-year-old boy from Mortsel, in the province of Antwerp, who disappeared on Thursday, September 17 and was found last Sunday in the village of Steenkerque, in Wallonia. Suspected of having kidnapped his nephew, Benjamine E.M., a radicalized man, will appear before the council chamber this Friday.
  Leaving his parents’ home in Vredebaan to go to Mortsel around 8:10 am on a blue-gray mountain bike with a beige (…)

• Belgian Police Hunt Armed and Dangerous Suspects in Torture Case
  26 September 2020, by Sylvanus

  At the request of the federal prosecutor’s office, the Belgian police have issued a wanted notice in an attempt to locate two individuals suspected of having sequestered and tortured a man for days. They could go to Morocco.
  This wanted notice is part of a judicial investigation. According to the investigators, Hamza Akarkach and Aziz Mozoune, the two actively wanted individuals are armed, violent and very dangerous. They are both French nationals. Born in Lille on February 18, 1991, (…)

• Uncle of Missing Belgian Boy Released Under Electronic Surveillance
  26 September 2020, by Sylvanus

  Benjamine E.M., the uncle of Ilias Chahdi, a 12-year-old boy from Mortsel, in the province of Antwerp, who disappeared on September 17 and was found last Sunday in a village in Hainaut, has been released but placed under electronic surveillance. This is the decision of the council chamber.
  The police had arrested the suspect last Sunday on Rue d’Enghien, in the Walloon municipality of Steenkerque, in the company of Ilias. On Monday, he had been placed under arrest warrant. It took several (…)

• Drug Kingpin with 40 Warrants Captured in Moroccan Forest Hideout
  30 September 2020, by Jérôme

  The drug baron called El Ouazzani fell into the trap of the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Benslimane, last Friday. The one who was the subject of 40 local and national wanted notices, was also being prosecuted for drug trafficking, rape and kidnapping of a girl.
  El Ouazzani was caught inside a hut located deep in the "Dahr ben Amar" forest, in the company of several of his accomplices, as well as other drug traffickers who, they managed to escape, reports the daily Assabah, adding (…)

• Tragic Discovery: Disabled Girl’s Murder Sparks Witchcraft Rumors in Moroccan Village
  1 October 2020, by Jérôme

  The kidnapping and murder of little Naima are particularly worrying her family, as well as the highest authorities. The investigations continue, torn between witchcraft, treasure and strabismus.
  The body of the little girl was found lifeless, last Saturday, in a mountain of Tafergalt, near Agdez (Province of Zagora), 41 days after her disappearance under mysterious circumstances, recalls Hespress.com. Witnesses are being questioned in order to reach the perpetrator of this crime that is (…)

• Suspects Sought Child’s Blood for Treasure Hunt in Moroccan Murder Case
  7 October 2020, by Jérôme

  The two alleged perpetrators of the murder of little Naima are said to have killed her because of a treasure. They would have kept the body of the 5-year-old girl for several days before leaving it in a remote area in Zagora, according to the preliminary investigation.
  The light appears a little more in the case of the murder of little Naima. Her dismembered body was found in a remote area in Zagora, a month after her disappearance. The two suspects in this atrocity (a sexagenarian and a (…)

• Moroccan Mother Faces Trial for International Child Abduction Amid Custody Dispute
  22 October 2020, by Jérôme

  As part of a parental conflict that began in 2013, Rachida, 32, was tried in a correctional court for child abduction from the person in charge of her custody and for retention in Morocco. The prosecutor is seeking 8 months of suspended prison sentence against her.
  This 32-year-old Moroccan woman abducted her 8-year-old daughter (whose residence had been fixed with her father in Caen by the children’s judge) from the person in charge of her custody by taking her to her family in Morocco (…)

• Moroccan Opposition Leader’s 1965 Paris Disappearance Still Unsolved After 55 Years
  30 October 2020, by Jérôme

  October 29, 1965, was the last time Mehdi Ben Barka was seen in Paris. France and Morocco have never explained the circumstances of the kidnapping and disappearance of Hassan II’s main opponent, whose centenary of birth and at the same time the 55th anniversary of his disappearance could not be commemorated due to the health crisis.
  It has been exactly 55 years since Mehdi Ben Barka was kidnapped and bundled into a vehicle in front of the Brasserie Lipp on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in (…)

• Moroccan Engineer Develops Smart T-Shirt to Combat Child Kidnappings
  3 November 2020, by Sylvanus

  Faced with the increase in kidnappings in Morocco, a young entrepreneur, Anis Kirama, has developed a preventive invention. It is a connected T-shirt equipped with detectors and an integrated microphone.
  The family members’ phone numbers can be recorded in the integrated microphone. The young Moroccan engineer explains that he had to work with pediatricians to develop this gadget. The sensors assess the danger by analyzing factors such as heart rate, body temperature (heat). As for the (…)