Moroccan Living Abroad

Articles

• Massive Pyramid Scheme in Morocco Defrauds Hundreds, Including Expatriates
  18 August 2024, by Sylvanus

  Many Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), particularly in Spain, are among the victims of the vast fraud orchestrated by the Al Khair Group in Tangier. An investigation is underway to shed light on this case.
  A large-scale pyramid selling fraud in Tangier. Following the filing of 700 complaints with the justice system, the investigating judge of the court of first instance in Tangier is conducting an investigation into the "Al Khair Group" case that has been shaking the city of Tangier for (…)

• Spanish Police Chief Faces Racist Backlash Over Moroccan Heritage
  15 January, by Sylvanus

  In Spain, the new national police commissioner in Jaén, Laila Idriss Hajj Mohamed, is the target of a racist campaign due to her Moroccan origins.
  "Laila Idriss Hajj Mohamed is the target of a vile racist campaign by Spaniards who have not accepted the appointment of this woman to a senior position within the National Police." On the web, the comments are pouring in. "Your leaders are also high treason collaborators and will be tried when the time comes, failed mercenaries," can be read (…)

• Moroccan Singer Becomes Top Arab Celebrity in South Korea
  7 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  Leaving Morocco in 2018, Kim Miso, whose real name is Ibtissam Harakat, settles in Korea where she fulfills her dreams of becoming a singer and promoting Korean, a language she fell in love with in 2008. Today, she has become the biggest Arab celebrity in the country.
  It all started with a Korean series broadcast on Moroccan television. "In 2008, Moroccan television aired a Korean series called My Name Is Kim Sam Soon. I was stunned by the humor and quality of this series and, from that (…)

• Morocco Offers Half-Price Museum Entry to Expats, Featuring Delacroix Exhibition
  24 June 2021, by Armel

  The National Foundation of Museums (FNM) is offering a 50% reduction in all its museums and for the exhibition "Delacroix, souvenirs d’un voyage au Maroc" to Moroccans living abroad, upon presentation of their passport. This decision was made in the royal dynamic of strengthening the attachment of Moroccans living abroad to their country of origin.
  This reduction covers the entire summer period and is part of the facilities granted to Moroccans living abroad by the tourist chain, (…)

• Spain Grants Asylum to Moroccan Transgender Individuals and Rif Activists
  14 February 2019, by Amine

  The Spanish government accepted 55 asylum applications from Moroccans in 2018. The vast majority of these accepted applications concerned Hirak activists from the Rif and transgender individuals.
  At a time when Chakib Lafrid has just declared that he wants to settle in Spain in order to enjoy unconditional freedom there, we learn from Spanish media sources that 55 asylum applications filed by Moroccans were accepted in 2018 by the Iberian authorities. Most of them would be transgender (…)

• Moroccan Migrants Allegedly Tortured and Held Hostage in Ivory Coast, Photos Spark Outrage
  1 January 2020, by Kamal

  Photos of Moroccan migrants held hostage in inhumane conditions in Ivory Coast have been circulating on social media.
  In the photos posted online, we see young naked or half-naked Moroccans. They would have been victims of violence from the local police.
  The young people would have been stripped and chained in inhuman conditions. To this end, Internet users have launched a petition calling on the Moroccan authorities to intervene in order to put an end to these acts, which they describe (…)

• New Ferry Route to Connect Spain and Morocco via Tanger-Med Port
  15 April 2019, by Said

  The FRS company has just announced a new maritime link between Spain and the Moroccan port of Tanger-Med. This new line is expected to be operational in the coming weeks.
  Currently dedicated to the line between Motril and Melilla, the FRS ship "Volcán de Tauce" will now cover Motril, in the Granada region, and Tanger-Med, after the arrival of another ship, Golden Bridge, next May, reports the local website El Faro de Ceuta.
  The "Miramar Express", currently dedicated to this line, should (…)

• Morocco Evacuates 40 Citizens from Libya as Violence Escalates
  23 April 2019, by Amine

  As the situation deteriorates in Libya and there are more than 250 dead and more than 1,200 wounded, we learn from media sources that Morocco has just repatriated forty Moroccans. This happened this weekend.
  The Le360 site specifies right away: "The Moroccan authorities repatriated, over the past weekend, a group of 40 of our nationals living in Libya. According to government sources, it is a group of men, women, but also children who were able to return to the motherland thanks to the (…)

• FRS Restores Vital Maritime Link Between Gibraltar and Tangier
  23 April 2022, by Prince

  "We have worked with the Government of Gibraltar and the Moroccan authorities to resume this important link for the Moroccan community and we are delighted that this service is operational again," said Ronny Moriana, CEO of FRS, to Europa Sur.
  For the Minister of Maritime Services, the resumption of this maritime line is good news for the Moroccan community who has "suffered the most" from the suspension of this service. "The links with Morocco are extremely important, as we look forward (…)

• Belgian Court Sentences Dutch-Moroccan Man to 12 Years for Major Heroin Trafficking Ring
  28 June 2019, by Kamal

  A Dutch national of Moroccan origin was sentenced by the Ghent Court of Appeal in Belgium to 12 years in prison for setting up a drug trafficking network. He is accused, along with his cousin, of having sold more than 210 kilos of heroin, and of causing the death of 3 people who died of overdose.
  The 43-year-old individual and his 22-year-old cousin were involved in a hard drug trafficking network operating between Belgium and the Netherlands. The two men were arrested on November 14, (…)