Kidnapping

Articles

• Mother’s 5-Year Battle to Reunite with Sons Kidnapped to Dubai
  21 April 2022, by Ginette

  For 5 years, Nazhia has lived with the fear of never seeing her two sons kidnapped and taken to Dubai again. All her attempts to recover her children have so far been unsuccessful. But she does not give up. The story of a fight!
  Nazhia Mahmoudi’s fight, a Brussels mother, began in July 2017 when she was in the process of divorcing her husband who lives in Dubai. Claiming that he misses his children and would like to spend time with them, he receives a visit from the two boys, then aged 8 (…)

• Paris Kidnapping Foiled: Police Rescue Victim, Arrest 3 Suspects After Ransom Demand
  14 May 2022, by Sylvanus

  From Morocco, a man reported the kidnapping and sequestration of one of his relatives in Paris (13th arrondissement). The police of Fontenay-sous-Bois not only found the victim, but also managed to apprehend three suspected kidnappers.
  After receiving images or a video of the young man in poor condition, one of his relatives alerted the departmental judicial police service (SDPJ). He was kidnapped in Paris and the kidnappers were demanding a ransom of 19,000 euros from the victim’s (…)

• Missing Moroccan Teen Found Safe in Casablanca, Search for Alleged Kidnappers Continues
  15 May 2022, by Armel

  Missing since Monday, May 9 in Casablanca, Fatima Zarha was found safe and sound on Thursday by the police. The search continues to arrest the alleged kidnappers mentioned in the complaint for theft and kidnapping.
  The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) announced in a press release that it had reacted following a complaint filed by a 17-year-old, claiming to be the victim of a theft by sub-Saharan nationals and claiming that a teenager in his company was kidnapped by the (…)

• Moroccan Local Official Jailed for Alleged Election Day Kidnapping Scheme
  20 May 2022, by Sylvanus

  Accused of kidnapping and sequestering elected councilors, the president of a commune located in the province of Larache, was arrested and then remanded in custody.
  Some members of the municipal council of Assouakane have accused the commune president of kidnapping and sequestration during the September 8 elections, reports the Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar. A member of the municipal council, a lawyer by profession, filed a complaint against him for kidnapping. The RNI elected official (…)

• Morocco Postpones Appeal Trial in High-Profile Tattoo Assault Case
  27 July 2022, by Ginette

  Initially scheduled for Monday, July 26, the examination of Khadija’s file, "the girl with the tattoos", has been postponed to September 19 next by the Court of Appeal of Beni Mellal.
  In this case, 12 individuals are being prosecuted for "rape, kidnapping, sequestration, tattooing and human trafficking". The postponement of the appeal trial by the Court of Appeal is due to the absence of the lawyers of three accused, even if all those prosecuted in custody in this case were present, (…)

• Reality TV Star Ayem Nour Denies Kidnapping Son in Morocco Custody Dispute
  17 November 2022, by Prince

  Ayem Nour, accused of kidnapping her son Ayvin in Morocco, intervened live on TPMP on Wednesday. The young mother gave her version of the facts, which is very different from that of her ex-husband and the boy’s father, Vincent Miclet, who claims to have official custody of the six-year-old.
  Ayvin’s disappearance was announced on Tuesday on Instagram by Vincent Miclet. "On Monday morning after dropping my son off at the American school, his mother Ayem Nour, in complicity with her mother (…)

• Reality TV Star Ayem Nour Alleges Domestic Abuse and Confinement in Morocco Custody Dispute
  28 November 2022, by Sylvanus

  Accused by Vincent Miclet of having kidnapped their 6-year-old son Ayvin in Morocco, Ayem Nour, the TPMP People columnist, makes new revelations about her ex-husband.
  In a new post on Instagram on Saturday, Ayem Nour accuses her ex-husband of domestic violence. "I’m at the end of my rope. The nightmare continues. My son and I have been in Morocco for 13 days now," she writes at the outset, before returning to an image dating from 2016 showing a bruised neck that she had posted a few days (…)

• Reality TV Star Ayem Nour Stranded in Morocco Amid Custody Dispute
  31 December 2022, by Sylvanus

  Ayem Nour, the TPMP People columnist, is still stuck in Morocco with her son Ayvin. She is desperate about her ex-partner who accused her of kidnapping, but deprives their son "of his life" after the withdrawal of his passport.
  Ayem Nour is dismayed and disappointed with her ex-husband. On Friday, she expressed her feelings in an Instagram story. She especially talked about Vincent Miclet, who is the source of her problems. "Not for a single second did I think he would be capable of such (…)

• Moroccan Court Increases Sentences for Gang Rape of Mother and Daughters
  7 January 2023, by Sylvanus

  Three members of a criminal gang were given heavy prison sentences on appeal for the kidnapping and rape of a mother and her four daughters committed in 2020 in a douar in Bouknadal, in the vicinity of Salé.
  Increased sentence for three members of a criminal gang prosecuted before the criminal chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal for kidnapping, violent rapes under the threat of knives and torture. Sentenced to 36 years in prison at first instance, they each received 25 years in prison on (…)

• Eight Arrested in Fez for Alleged Kidnapping and Ransom Scheme
  18 January 2023, by Ginette

  Eight individuals were arrested on Tuesday by the Fez police elements. They would be involved in a case of kidnapping and ransom demand.
  The complaint for kidnapping was filed by a woman who claims to have received a telephone call notifying her of the kidnapping of her husband and the payment of a ransom. Based on the information provided by the complainant, the police opened an investigation, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) said in a statement.
  The searches and (…)