Kidnapping

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• Missing French Teen Case Reclassified as Kidnapping, Authorities Seek Public’s Help
  30 January 2023, by Prince

  Sihem Belouahmia, 18, has been missing since January 25, the last time she was seen in La Grand Combe (Gard). Based on "new elements", the investigators are leaning towards a kidnapping with sequestration rather than a "worrying disappearance".
  "New elements require us to move from a worrying disappearance to a kidnapping and sequestration case... ", said François Schneider, the public prosecutor of Alès, regarding the case of Sihem Belouahmia, who disappeared on Wednesday, January 25 in (…)

• Missing Teen Case: Two Suspects Arrested in Sihem Belouahmia Kidnapping Investigation
  1 February 2023, by Sylvanus

  The investigation into the disappearance of Sihem Belouahmia, a young woman of 18 years old, is progressing. Two individuals have already been arrested and placed in custody. The kidnapping trail is favored.
  Has Sihem Belouahmia been kidnapped? On Sunday, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Alès, François Schneider, opened a procedure for kidnapping and sequestration. This makes it possible to deploy additional investigative resources. The opening of this procedure follows the arrest of (…)

• Marrakech Notary Accused of Embezzlement Kidnapped Over Unpaid Debt
  14 March 2023, by Prince

  A notary detained in Marrakech for embezzling 70 million dirhams from his clients would have been kidnapped and detained by a creditor to whom he owed 860,000 dirhams.
  The creditor, the owner of several taxis, is said to have lured the notary to a villa located in a tourist resort where he would have held him captive for a week. The notary was released thanks to the intervention of another notary, reports the daily Al Akhbar.
  Arrested in Agadir and then transferred to Marrakech, the (…)

• Former CEO Jacques Bouthier Released on Bail Amid Rape and Trafficking Charges
  22 March 2023, by Ginette

  While the criminal chamber of Tangier has decided to try the eight people involved in Morocco in the Jacques Bouthier case, the former CEO of the Assu 2000 group, arrested and indicted in Paris for "human trafficking" and "rape of minors", has obtained conditional release against the payment of a bail set at 500,000 euros.
  At the age of 76, Jacques Bouthier had been indicted and incarcerated in May 2022 in Paris. He is also being prosecuted for criminal conspiracy to commit a crime of (…)

• Moroccan Cyclists Freed After Month-Long Kidnapping in Sahel Region
  15 May 2023, by Prince

  Morocco has managed to free Abderrahmane Serhani and Driss Fatihi, the two Moroccan cyclists kidnapped more than a month ago in the Sahel region, precisely in the border area between Burkina Faso and Niger.
  The two Moroccan cyclists, reported missing in the Sahel region, would currently be in Niamey, Niger, where they are undergoing medical examinations. Since their arrival in Burkina Faso from Côte d’Ivoire, Abderrahmane Serhani and Driss Fatihi had not given any news of themselves, even (…)

• Swedish Woman Arrested in Morocco for Alleged Child Abduction and Document Fraud
  11 June 2023, by Said

  Under an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol, a 31-year-old Swedish woman was arrested on Saturday, June 10 in Marrakech. According to the authorities, she would be involved in a kidnapping case and the falsification of official documents.
  According to a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), the young woman would have falsified her husband’s signature to produce false documents, thus allowing her to kidnap their minor son who was under shared (…)

• Reality TV Star Ayem Nour Stranded in Morocco Amid Custody Battle, Receives Support from Singer Vitaa
  26 June 2023, by Prince

  Vitaa has expressed her support on Instagram for Ayem Nour, who has been blocked for several months in Morocco with her son Ayvin, due to the legal battle she is waging with her ex-partner, Vincent Miclet, for custody of the child.
  The former reality TV candidate shared a video of her son dancing in a car on her Instagram account on Saturday, accompanied by the following text: "As Vitaa says, that’s life. But when I see him like that, I tell myself that I still have the strength to fight. (…)

• Former PSG President’s Butler Files Kidnapping Complaint, Alleges Extortion
  12 July 2023, by Prince

  Moroccan Hicham Karmoussi, the former butler of PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, filed a complaint against X on June 28 with the Paris prosecutor’s office for "attempted kidnapping" and "extortion".
  In his complaint, Hicham Karmoussi, of Moroccan origin, claims to have suffered enormous pressure because he is suspected of holding sensitive information about his former boss, reports Libération. He "wishes in particular to denounce the conditions in which he signed a settlement agreement (…)

• Belgian-Moroccan Man Kidnapped in Ecuador After Online Romance Scam
  7 August 2023, by Prince

  The Ecuadorian police have apprehended three individuals accused of the kidnapping and sequestration of a Belgian-Moroccan who had traveled to Manta at the end of July to meet a woman he had met on social networks.
  The 43-year-old man had fallen deeply in love with this woman with whom he only communicated on WhatsApp, and decided to go to Manta to meet her. On July 28, the two lovebirds met on the Barbasquillo beach. But after the meeting, the Belgian-Moroccan was kidnapped by armed men (…)

• Moroccan Police Bust 25-Member Gang Targeting Businessmen in Euro Scam
  10 October 2023, by Prince

  The National Brigade of Judicial Investigations of the Royal Gendarmerie in the Gharb region has just dismantled a criminal network specialized in the kidnapping and fraud of senior officials and businessmen. Composed of 25 members, this gang has already victimized some 50 people.
  This criminal gang targets "businessmen and senior officials from Tangier, Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Meknes, Fez, Kenitra and other regions" that it defrauds. Their modus operandi is simple. They inform their (…)