Montpellier

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• Brother of Montpellier Hit-and-Run Victim Speaks Out Amid Community Tensions
  20 December 2022, by Ginette

  A week after Aymen’s death, hit by a reckless driver in the Mosson district of Montpellier, his elder brother Saïd broke his silence to talk about the tragedy his family has been going through since Wednesday, December 13.
  "I don’t show it, but I’m broken inside. He was my little brother, the favorite. Have you seen the world that is showing its support? Even people we’ve never seen," Saïd confides. The 20-year-old young man did not expect to lose his brother so soon, and especially not (…)

• Stranded Passengers Recount Chaos After Montpellier Airport Accident
  1 October 2022, by Armel

  A week after the plane accident that paralyzed Montpellier airport, several travelers, including Moroccans, have recounted their misadventure.
  Canceled flights, their passengers left to fend for themselves: the accident of the Boeing 737, carrying freight, which missed its landing on September 24 at Montpellier airport, caused a lot of inconvenience to travelers. Several of them confided in Midi Libre.
  "My daughter and her friend were supposed to land on Saturday evening from Marrakech (…)

• Record 1.4 Tons of Moroccan Hashish Seized Near Montpellier in Major Drug Bust
  11 October 2022, by Prince

  A truck from Spain transporting 1.4 tons of Moroccan hashish was stopped overnight from Sunday to Monday at the Saint-Jean-de-Védas toll booth on the A709, near Montpellier.
  Cannabis seizures are multiplying on the road axes near Montpellier, as is often the case in the fall. During a check at the Saint-Jean-de-Védas toll booth on the A709, the customs officers of Montpellier discovered inside a truck coming from Spain a significant quantity of "Moroccan suitcases" containing more than (…)

• Muslim Couple Faces Racist Backlash Over New Montpellier Restaurant Opening
  11 April, by Sylvanus

  Barely had he announced the opening of his restaurant in the Plan Cabanes neighborhood of Montpellier when a Muslim couple became the target of racist and Islamophobic insults.
  The announcement of the opening of the restaurant "L’Océan fish", a seafood restaurant, sparked racist and Islamophobic comments on social media due to the image posted on Monday, April 7 on the Facebook page of the local media La Gazette de Montpellier. Taken inside the seafood restaurant, this image shows the (…)

• Montpellier Airport Sees 30% Summer Traffic Surge, Moroccan Routes Thrive
  25 September 2022, by Sylvanus

  A successful summer for Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport. Traffic increased by more than 30% compared to last summer. More than 400,000 passengers were welcomed in July and August. Over the first 8 months of the year, 1.2 million passengers were recorded. Traffic is therefore growing strongly. However, it has not yet returned to its 2019 pre-Covid level.
  "To compare with the year 2019, which remains the reference year (and that of a record traffic for us), we are doing no less than 92% of (…)

• Transavia Expands Routes from Montpellier: New Flights to Brussels, Ibiza, and Tangier in 2020
  22 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  The low-cost airline Transavia, a subsidiary of Air France-KLM, is preparing to launch in 2020 three new routes from Montpellier, including one to Morocco.
  Brussels, for a city break with friends, Ibiza, for a festive stay by the sea and finally Tangier, for an exotic getaway. These are the exclusive destinations that the airline intends to offer its customers in 2020.
  In detail, Transavia will serve Brussels from April 5, 2020, Ibiza on July 7, 2020 and Tangier on July 9, 2020, from (…)

• Moroccan Man Faces Trial for Brutal 2014 Murder of Wife in France
  14 January 2019, by Said

  The trial of Abdennbi Choua, accused of savagely killing his wife in September 2014, has opened today at the Hérault Assize Court.
  Incarcerated since that date, the 50-year-old man claims his innocence and says that on that day, he had taken his children to school before going to his workplace, reports France Bleu. Around 12:30 p.m., he received a call from the teacher telling him that his wife had not come to pick up the children from school.
  He claims to have gone home before (…)

• Van Seized Near Montpellier: Driver Caught with 9 Tons Over Legal Limit
  22 April 2019, by Said

  While the summer holidays are still a little way off, many North Africans are taking advantage of the relative calm to return to their country of origin, but sometimes at the risk of their lives.
  Thus, a man of unknown nationality, but most likely of Moroccan origin, was arrested on Friday morning for overloading by the motorway gendarmerie of Poussan, in the Montpellier region. While his van was only authorized to transport a maximum of 3.5 tons, the driver was checked with 12.5 tons, (…)

• Tragic Turn: Mother Killed by Driver After Algeria’s Africa Cup Win in Montpellier
  13 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  On the sidelines of the celebration of Algeria’s victory in the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) on Thursday, July 11, 2019 evening at La Mosson in Montpellier, a driver hit a family, causing the immediate death of the mother, a 42-year-old woman of Moroccan origin.
  A victory that turns to drama! According to several French media, the driver in question is a 21-year-old man who was celebrating his team’s victory in the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) (…)

• Controversy Erupts Over French Politician’s Swastika Birthday Cake Photo
  28 July 2019, by Sylvanus

  Two years after its publication on his Facebook account, the photo of the birthday cake of the opposition municipal councilor of Montpellier, Djamel Boumaaz, continues to cause controversy. Outraged, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and an anti-racist NGO are taking this matter seriously and demanding sanctions against the elected official.
  The publication of the photo of his birthday cake decorated with a swastika on the social network caused a general outcry, reports Franceinfo.
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