
Pregnant Woman Rescued from Well in Morocco, Authorities Investigate Possible Honor Crime
A young woman was rescued by tourists while she was in an abandoned well in the M’Hamid El Ghizlane region, in Boulmane.

A young woman was rescued by tourists while she was in an abandoned well in the M’Hamid El Ghizlane region, in Boulmane.

Driven, she says, by the precarious conditions in which she lives with her children, a Moroccan woman residing in Benslimane is determined to sell her kidney via Tiktok to offer a better life to her family.

The trial of Khalid F., 54, prosecuted for the murder of his wife, Bouchra B., 26, whom he stabbed to death on November 26, 2021 in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), opened on Tuesday before the Bobigny Assize Court. The accused will be informed of his fate this Friday.

The body of a woman of Moroccan origin was fished out of the sea in Moaña (Pontevedra, Galicia), after a car accident that occurred on Saturday. The driver of the vehicle is said to have deliberately accelerated towards the sea. An investigation has been opened to shed light on this case.

A woman around 40 years old has been arrested as a suspect in the murder of her mother, who disappeared nearly a year ago, and whose body was found this week in the family home in the medina of Meknes.

The police arrested two young girls accused of desecrating the Quran on a street in Marrakech.

The Spanish police arrested at the beginning of the week a man of Spanish origin, director of a firm specializing in the processing of foreigners’ documentation in the city of Melilla, for having defrauded a Moroccan woman to whom he had promised to issue a residence permit in Spain.

A married woman and mother of five children is accused by her husband of adultery with a moqaddem in the douar of Afella N’Dra, in the Zagora region. She denies the allegations.

The behaviors deemed indecent of the Moroccan women who participated in the first and second seasons of the Turkish reality TV show "Qesma w Naseeb" are causing a strong controversy on social networks.

The elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Sidi Kacem arrested a woman who set fire to a mausoleum in the Nouirat region.

An Algerian woman claiming to be Moroccan and poor was arrested along with two other women, one of whom was pregnant, by the Royal Gendarmerie services in the Belyounech region.

A French tourist refused to take a seat next to a veiled Moroccan woman in a taxi in Marrakech, saying she feared for her safety. The video of the scene, posted on Facebook, sparked outrage among Internet users.