Kidnapping

Articles

• Spanish Police Bust Moroccan Gang Accused of Highway Kidnappings and Ransom Plots
  17 November 2020, by Kamal

  Four Moroccans were arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a criminal network specializing in kidnapping, the sequestration of highway users in Spain.
  The 4 individuals, aged 25 to 35, were apprehended during an ambush set up by Guardia civil agents in Alicante. Several cars and mobile phones were seized during the searches carried out at the suspects’ homes.
  The latest operation dates back to the beginning of November, when two men were kidnapped in Alicante and held (…)

• Spain Warns of Rising Sahrawi Recruitment by ISIS in Sahel Region
  21 November 2020, by Jérôme

  The arrival in the ranks of Daesh of Sahrawis from the Lahmada camps is becoming very worrying, warns the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
  Faced with the increase in the recruitment of Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps by terrorist groups, particularly Daesh operating in the Sahel, the Director General of Foreign Policy and Security within the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is alerting the Spanish Ministry of the Interior and the US embassy in Madrid to the (…)

• Brutal Murder of Marrakech Butcher Shocks Community, Family Demands Justice
  5 December 2020, by Sylvanus

  "I found Mohcine naked, in critical condition, in a shack. Then I went to inform the authorities who went to the scene, before transferring him to the Marrakech hospital," recounts Hamza, one of his childhood friends, to Le360. "My son has undergone acts of torture and barbarism," testifies his father, who assures that this kind of crime did not exist in their douar."
  The wish of Mohcine’s mother and his wife is that justice be done. They demand that the alleged perpetrators of the murder (…)

• Four Arrested in Salé for Violent Carjacking and Kidnapping Scheme
  7 December 2020, by Ginette

  Four individuals aged 22 to 46 were arrested by the judicial police elements of Salé, in coordination with the services of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST). They would belong to a criminal gang involved in a case of theft, sequestration and violence.
  In a statement, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) indicated that the suspects intercepted a vehicle in a forest area of Sala Al Jadida. Before taking the vehicle with them, they proceeded to (…)

• Belgian Boy, 9, Rescued from Syrian Camp After Mother’s Abduction
  27 December 2020, by Ginette

  A 9-year-old boy, kidnapped by his mother and taken to Syria, was repatriated on Friday to Belgium. The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which specified that the child was with his mother in the Roj camp, near the Turkish border.
  The child’s mother took him to Syria "to join the caliphate" in 2014. And it is still she who requested that he be repatriated and handed over to his father in Belgium. "I want him to leave. He can no longer stay here," his mother (…)

• Retired Police Officer Among Three Arrested in Rabat Kidnapping Case
  9 January 2021, by Ginette

  Three individuals, including a retired police officer, were arrested and are the subject of a judicial investigation initiated on Friday by the judicial police of Rabat. They would be involved in a case of kidnapping and sequestration.
  In addition to the retired police officer, his brother and a freight transport driver are involved in the case. It all started with a call received on Friday morning, on the emergency number "19", from the Rabat police to report the kidnapping of an (…)

• Palestinian Hostage Freed in Rabat; Suspects Include Ex-Police Officer
  11 January 2021, by Sylvanus

  The police elements managed to free a Palestinian who was kidnapped in Rabat. He was also wanted nationwide for fraud and issuing bad checks.
  The alleged perpetrators of the Palestinian’s kidnapping are three in number. Among them, a former judicial police officer. Accused of kidnapping and sequestration, the three suspects were referred to the competent general prosecutor’s office in Rabat. These three individuals had surprised the Palestinian national in the vicinity of the Mohammed V (…)

• Four Suspects Jailed in Brussels Kidnapping and Extortion Case
  13 January 2021, by Sylvanus

  The investigating judge has decided to place four suspects - all of Moroccan origin - in pre-trial detention for kidnapping and sequestration committed in Brussels and Hal. They will appear on Friday, January 15, 2021, before the council chamber.
  The judge charged Mohamed A., Younes E., Marouane E.K. and Ibrahim E.M. with attempted extortion in a gang, at night and with a weapon, but also with arbitrary detention with threats and intentional assault and battery resulting in incapacity for (…)

• Lawyer Kidnapped and Robbed in Temara: Suspect with Criminal Record Arrested
  15 January 2021, by Kamal

  Less than a week after the kidnapping and fraud of a lawyer near her home in Temara, she has returned to the moment when she was held hostage in her own car. Her kidnapper was brought before the investigating judge on Monday.
  As she was about to leave her villa, in the Sidi Abed district of Harhoura, the lawyer at the Rabat bar was approached by an individual with a criminal record. Armed with a bladed weapon, the kidnapper, aged 24, got into the car and forced her to drive to an empty (…)

• Missing Belgian Boy Found: Uncle Faces Prison for Kidnapping 11-Year-Old Ilias
  9 February 2021, by Sylvanus

  The Antwerp public prosecutor’s office has requested four years in prison, including two years suspended, against Benyamine E.M., who is being prosecuted for kidnapping with violence, deception or threat. Little Ilias had disappeared for three days before being found in the company of his uncle in the village of Steenkerke, in Flanders.
  Leaving his parents’ house to go to Mortsel around 8:10 a.m. on a blue-gray mountain bike with a beige seat, on September 17, Ilias Chahdi was reported (…)