On Monday, the main defendant in the assault on two police officers on duty in Al Hoceima was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison by the court of first instance in the city.
A Moroccan man was sentenced to five years in prison in France for hiding nearly 20 rocks of cocaine in his vehicle. The merchandise was allegedly destined for the French market.
The judicial police summoned last Wednesday, before the court of appeal of Rabat, the main suspect in the case of the murder of a police inspector in Khemisset. He was prosecuted under arrest for premeditated murder.
A 52-year-old Moroccan, who had already been the subject of a sexual assault procedure in Alicante in 2005, has just been sentenced to six months in prison with detention. The victim is a 13-year-old minor.
Tried in immediate appearance for "aggravated violence", a Moroccan homeless man with a heavy criminal record was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He had beaten a man in a wheelchair.
According to the Moroccan Observatory of Prisons (OMP), Africans are at the top of the list of foreign inmates in Moroccan prisons . Europe occupies the 2nd place followed by Arab countries.
In Casablanca, the case of the judges flagged as part of an investigation into the alleged involvement of magistrates in an attempt to interfere in an ongoing legal case, has more secrets to reveal. A judge who held the position of president of a chamber at the court of appeal has been indicted for corruption.
The "ould lefchouch" (spoiled child) who had rammed the wedding procession in early February in Essaouira will not serve his two-year prison sentence . He was released on bail.
A young man of Moroccan origin was placed in detention on Friday in Gijón (Asturias), after being found guilty of attempted murder on Jesús María Menéndez Suárez (Father Chus), a former priest.
The father of Sébastien Raoult, a French student arrested and then incarcerated in Morocco , because he is suspected by the FBI of belonging to a group of hackers and having hacked the data of American companies, pleads for the non-extradition of his son to the United States, where he faces 116 years in prison. The Moroccan justice system will have to make a decision in this regard in the very near future.
The Court of Appeal of Rabat sentenced the director of a Crédit Agricole agency to four years in prison for embezzlement and forgery and use of forgery.
The two officials of Hassan 1st University, accused in the "sex for good grades" case, obtained last Thursday a reduction of their sentences by the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Settat.