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• French Court Upholds Travel Agency Liability in Moroccan Desert Accident Case
  8 April, by Prince

  The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed the shared liability of a travel agency that sold a Moroccan circuit including a 4x4 excursion in the desert to a traveler. She was injured during this trip.
  The court of first instance had established the agency’s 50% liability. In its decision dated March 20, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal confirms this shared liability, based on the Tourism Code. However, according to international law, in the case of a traffic accident, the law of the place (…)

• Gas Explosion in Paris Bakery Kills 4, Injures Dozens Including Tourists
  14 January 2019, by Said

  The explosion that occurred on Saturday in a bakery located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris left four dead and several injured, including two Moroccans.
  Yesterday, the lifeless body of a woman was discovered by firefighters in the rubble of the building, several media report. The victim resided in the main building blown up by the explosion.
  "Two Moroccan nationals, who were staying in a hotel opposite the bakery where the explosion occurred, are among the slightly injured persons," (…)

• Moroccan Minister’s Divorce Finalized Following Paris Scandal
  24 January 2019, by Said

  The Salé court has just pronounced the divorce of the Minister of Employment and Professional Integration Mohamed Yatim, at the heart of a scandal a few months ago after his appearance hand in hand with his fiancée in Paris.
  The divorce was pronounced yesterday, Wednesday, reports the Hespress website, specifying that he will have to pay around 300,000 dirhams to his ex-wife as compensation.
  In a video posted on social media last September, the minister from the Party of Justice and (…)

• Paris Apartment Fire Death Toll Rises to 10, Including Young Moroccan Woman
  6 February 2019, by Amine

  The violent arson fire in Paris, in a building in the 16th arrondissement that occurred on Monday night to Tuesday, claimed 10 lives, including a 23-year-old Moroccan woman: Meriem Erainat.
  Meriem Erainat had not given any news since this catastrophe caused by a woman with a psychiatric history (over a trivial neighborhood dispute) who, according to the French media, had left the psychiatric hospital just four days before the tragedy.
  It took, according to Atlasinfo, for the victim’s (…)

• Moroccan Consulate Assists Family After Young Woman Dies in Paris Apartment Fire
  7 February 2019, by Said

  The Moroccan Consulate in Paris has just indicated that it is in contact with the family of the young Moroccan woman who died in the night from Monday to Tuesday in the fire that ravaged a building in the 16th arrondissement.
  In a statement, the consulate says it is accompanying the family in "this ordeal and for the various formalities," first of identification and then likely the repatriation of the remains to Morocco. The diplomatic representation, it is said, had learned of the death (…)

• King Mohammed VI Offers Support to France After Notre-Dame Fire
  16 April 2019, by Said

  The Moroccan Sovereign expresses to the French President, on behalf of the Moroccan people and in His own name, the expression of all His support and solidarity.
  King Mohammed VI also conveys his heartfelt thoughts to the entire French people, whose cathedral is one of the symbols of their History, adding that this disaster affects not only one of the most emblematic historical monuments of the city of Paris, but also a place of prayer and contemplation for millions of believers around the (…)

• Morocco Expresses Solidarity as Notre-Dame Cathedral Fire Shocks World
  16 April 2019, by Said

  "The Moroccan Embassy shares the immense emotion of Parisians and the French in the face of the terrible and violent fire that is ravaging Notre-Dame de Paris, an emblematic monument of the heritage of Paris and one of the most beautiful symbols of French history," the embassy wrote on its Twitter account.
  Nearly 15 million tourists from around the world visit the building each year, whose spire, which reached 93 meters, collapsed as millions of people watched the progress of the fire on (…)

• Transavia Expands Morocco Service with New Paris-Ouarzazate Route
  27 July 2019, by Sylvanus

  Transavia is launching the Paris-Orly-Ouarzazate route with two flights per week on board the Boeing 737-800 with 189 seats, reports the specialized journal Air Journal.
  "Departures are scheduled on Thursdays at 1:25 pm (arrival at 5:00 pm) and Sundays at 1:50 pm (arrival at 5:25 pm)," the same source specifies.
  As for the flights leaving Morocco, they are scheduled on Thursdays at 5:45 pm (arrival at 9:05 pm) and Sundays at 6:10 pm (arrival at 9:30 pm).
  With this new route, Transavia (…)

• PSG Star Marquinhos Embraces Viral ’Moroccan’ Nickname Amid Ongoing Internet Joke
  7 March 2019, by Amine

  For Marquinhos, Morocco is his second country. And this comes from a joke by the satirical website Football France which had made him pass for a Moroccan and had given him the nickname "Marquinhos the Moroccan". His fictitious Morocanness has since been the source of endless jokes.
  Marquinhos, whose real name is Marcos Aoás Corrêa, was born in 1994 in Sao Paulo, Brazilian and Portuguese this Brazilian international plays in Ligue 1, at PSG to be precise. Nothing very Moroccan... On the (…)

• Transavia Launches Twice-Weekly Flights from Paris to Nador, Morocco
  7 April 2019, by Said

  The airline Transavia has launched its new link to Morocco, more precisely between the airports of Paris-Orly and Nador Al-Aroui, in the north of the country.
  This new link is scheduled at a rate of two flights per week, reports the specialized website Air Journal, which cites a press release from the company. Thus, the flights are scheduled on Mondays and Fridays for a base price of 59 euros including tax, but much more expensive when it comes to making a simulation on the Transavia (…)