The financial crimes chamber of the Casablanca Court of Appeal has sentenced Abdessamed Khannani, a deputy of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) and mayor of the commune of Boujniba, to three years in prison for embezzlement of public funds and misappropriation of funds.
Hamid Chehouani, one of the deputies to the former mayor of Marrakech, was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams for "fraud, abuse of authority and failure to report a crime."
Faced with the overcrowding of Moroccan prisons, the government wants to reduce the excessive use of pre-trial detention . A bill has been initiated for this purpose.
The court of first instance in Fez sentenced the son of a deputy to four months in prison for involuntary manslaughter and hit-and-run. He caused a traffic accident with an uninsured vehicle.
In 2020, Morocco had 76 inmates on death row, 9 more than in 2019, according to data from the public prosecutor’s office.
About a hundred people took part on Thursday, December 9, 2021 in a white march in memory of Bouchra Bouali, a 44-year-old Moroccan woman, stabbed to death by her ex-partner, - a man who had just been released from prison - on the evening of November 26 in Epinay-sur-Seine. Some claim that the forty-year-old was a victim of the dysfunctions of the justice system.
In Benguerir, a worker accused of stealing eggs was jailed after a complaint filed by his employer, MP Abdellatif Zaim.
A Moroccan woman from Daesh, arrested at the Turkish border in 2015 and then incarcerated for terrorism at the Fresnes prison in Val-de-Marne, tried to escape before being caught by prison staff. Investigations are ongoing to identify and apprehend the person who was going to pick her up.
The Franco-Algerian Brahim Bouhlel, sentenced on April 21 to eight months in prison and incarcerated at the local prison of Oudaya in Marrakech , for "his bad joke" should regain his freedom this Sunday, December 5. His friend Sammy Tamy will be released in four months.
M.J., suspected of belonging to a criminal organization active in drug trafficking between Morocco, Spain and Belgium, faces 10 years in prison. His lawyers pleaded for his acquittal on Friday before the Brussels Criminal Court.
Accused of having delivered girls she had brought to Morocco to prostitute themselves, a master’s student was arrested and then placed in pre-trial detention in the Al Arjat prison in Salé. She would be a member of an international pimping network.
The Fez court sentenced, on Tuesday, the former deputy-mayor of Nador, Slimane Houliche, to 4 years in prison for embezzlement of public funds, corruption and influence peddling .