The date for the resumption of family visits for prisoners in Moroccan prisons has been postponed to July 13. The announcement was made on Wednesday by the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Integration (DGAPR).
The police services specialized in financial crimes in Rabat arrested and detained the director of a bank branch (38 years old) in Salé and a businessman (42 years old) for embezzlement.
Three former Antwerp police officers were fined and sentenced to prison terms of up to forty months suspended for violent theft and racism. This is the verdict handed down by the criminal court.
An individual died by hanging in the toilets of the local Salouane prison in Nador using his shirt, on Friday, June 19. He was incarcerated for the alleged murder of his grandparents.
Tarik Attar, prosecuted for the murder of Valentin Amrouche, whose body had been discovered in Montceau-les-Mines, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a 12-year security period. This is the judgment rendered at the end of a four-day trial before the Saône-et-Loire Assize Court, which opened on Monday, June 15.
The YouTuber "Mi Naïma" is now free. She left the Oukacha prison in Casablanca on Thursday after spending 3 months there for posting false content on YouTube.
A hotelier in Agadir was placed in pre-trial detention in the Ait Melloul prison, for his alleged involvement in a case of document forgery and obstruction of a court decision related to an auction.
Naoufal Hassani, a 29-year-old Brussels rider, also a former Moroccan dressage champion, is accused of raping three minors. He faces up to eight years in prison.
The Nîmes criminal court sentenced a Moroccan, employed as a security guard in a supermarket, to 12 months in prison with a suspended sentence for acts of sexual harassment on female colleagues.
The alleged rapist of Ikram, a 6-year-old girl, has been returned to pre-trial detention, Wednesday. This is the decision of the Moroccan justice, after the wave of outrage caused by the release on bail of the defendant.
The Casablanca Court of Appeal confirmed, on Wednesday, the conviction to one year in prison and the payment of a fine of 2,000 dirhams handed down at first instance against the Salafist Abdelhamid Abou Naïm .
The mutilated body of a man in his fifties was discovered in Had Rass Al Aïn, in the village of Oum Aliouled Oukad. The defendant is now in prison.