A social housing tenant in Antwerp risks losing his home after the discovery of a plot of land he owns jointly with his brother in Morocco. The Court of Cassation considers that having received this property for free does not allow him to evade Flemish rules.
Having arrived clandestinely from Morocco at the age of 9, Rania Kissi was abandoned by her father a year later and grew up in foster families. After experiencing homelessness, the young woman became a legal expert, activist and Paris councillor.
Ilyas Kherbouch, known as “Ganito,” has been sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating the violent burglary of Gianluigi Donnarumma from his prison cell. The Franco-Moroccan became notorious after escaping from Villepinte prison with the help of fake police officers.
An investigation conducted in Morocco revealed that a beneficiary of Dutch social assistance had owned three properties and collected rental income without declaring it. Her municipality can recover 177,226.12 euros paid over nearly twelve years, the courts have just confirmed.
A man born in Morocco will have to repay 8,681.41 euros to CAF. The court found that the overpayment was fraudulent after the discovery of several properties and statements deemed false.
Prosecuted for taking part in a major cannabis trafficking operation between Morocco and the Paris region, Ahmed A. had been sentenced to six years in prison. The Versailles Court of Appeal ultimately acquitted him after an essential part of the proceedings was destroyed.
Moroccans remain the most numerous foreign nationals holding a valid residence permit in the European Union. There were 2.2 million of them at the end of 2025, ahead of Turks and Ukrainians.
Checks carried out in Flanders among social housing tenants suspected of owning property abroad have yielded results in more than half of the cases. Morocco is by far the country subjected to the highest number of investigations.
A retiree born in Morocco must continue repaying more than €10,600 to CAF after several extended stays outside France were discovered. Her Moroccan passport, which she had initially claimed not to possess, played a decisive role during the investigation.
The prefecture wanted to transfer a Moroccan man to the Netherlands and had placed him under house arrest for 45 days. The courts have annulled both decisions: having previously granted him a residence permit for health reasons, France had become responsible for his case.
A Moroccan woman who has lived in France since 2016 was refused a ten-year resident card on the basis of the Franco-Tunisian agreement. The prefecture subsequently corrected its mistake and refused her a second time. The courts have just annulled both decisions.
A 28-year-old cultural mediator of Moroccan origin, born in Caltanissetta, Sicily, says she was the target of racist insults after intervening to defend a young Bangladeshi man who was being harassed near the train station.