Deporting foreign prisoners, including Moroccans, to reduce prison overcrowding. This is one of the reforms that Gérald Darmanin, the French Minister of Justice, intends to launch soon.
The Moroccan residing in Canada and her three co-defendants in the "slap to the Caïd of Témara" case appear at the beginning of this week before the Rabat Court of Appeal. They had all been sentenced to a total of four years in prison in the first instance.
Arrested at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca on Monday, upon her return to Morocco from the United Arab Emirates, then placed in detention, the youtuber Fatima Zahra Oulahyane, known as "Sophia Taytmaters" has been released on bail. She will appear before the investigating judge at the end of May.
Nasser Zefzafi, one of the leaders of the Rif Hirak, temporarily left the "Tangier 2" prison under high security escort. This outing allowed him to visit his father hospitalized in a private clinic in Al Hoceima.
The attempted departure of a former French soldier sentenced by Moroccan justice to four years in prison in 2016 for Syria ended in failure.
Already convicted for a car trafficking case, Nicolas D., 35, appeared Tuesday before the investigating chamber in Paris for the murder of a social hotel guard. The former police officer claims his innocence and requests release, but the court decided to keep him in detention.
After a long series of postponements, the appeal trial of Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, sentenced in 2023 to six years in prison for rape and aggravated violence against a French woman, will soon open in France.
In pre-trial detention awaiting his trial scheduled for June, Driss, accused of drug trafficking, requested his release on Friday to treat a cancer relapse. The Montauban court rejected his request.
The young man in his twenties admitted to the facts and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Rabat Court of Appeal. He had slit his language teacher’s throat on the grounds that he had been sexually assaulted by him.
While they thought he had fled to Morocco, Belgian investigators finally arrested Ali O., convicted in two separate trials for drug trafficking and membership in a criminal organization in the Antwerp region. He is currently incarcerated in Antwerp prison, Belgium.
Accused of international drug trafficking and money laundering, Youssef Mourad, the secretary of the Fès-Meknès regional council, has fled before the decision of the Fès Court of Appeal ordering his detention in the local Bourkaïz prison.
Mitigating circumstances for Jonathan Harroch, CEO of Nation Sportive group, at the head of City Club, Unique Fitness Clubs and UFC Gym Morocco brands, sentenced to two years in prison in the first instance for issuing checks without funds. He received a reduced sentence on appeal.