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• Agadir Court Delays Trial in Amine Chariz Death Case, Orders Further Investigation
  28 February 2022, by Sylvanus

  The Court of Appeal of the city of Agadir has decided to postpone the examination of the case of the accused in the case of Amine Chariz, a 22-year-old man who died on February 8, to March 10.
  The postponement of the examination of the case of the accused is motivated by the search for new data in this case, reports Hespress. It is therefore planned that the data and phones of the accused will be examined for the purposes of the investigation. This decision by the Court of Appeal of the (…)

• Moroccan Rapper Released on Bail After Arrest for Offensive Online Content
  22 February, by Sylvanus

  The controversial rapper Ihab Iqbal, known as 7liwa, was released on bail after being taken into custody for the dissemination and distribution of an audiovisual composition containing offensive remarks on social networks.
  On Friday, the public prosecutor’s office at the Correctional Court of Aïn Sebaâ (Casablanca) decided to prosecute the rapper Ihab Iqbal, known as 7liwa, on provisional release, against a financial bail of 5,000 dirhams. Placed in custody on Thursday as part of the (…)

• "Desert Escobar" case: serious charges against Said Naciri and Abdenbi Bioui
  26 March 2024, by Sylvanus

  Serious charges have been brought against the accused -Said Naciri and Abdenbi Bioui, both members of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM)-, in the case of Lhaj Ahmed Benbrahim alias "Desert Escobar", named after the Malian initially detained in the El Jadida prison, before being transferred to the local prison of Ain Sebaâ 1 and then to the local prison of Salé 2.
  The charges brought against Said Naciri, president of Wydad de Casablanca, PAM parliamentarian, and also president of (…)

• Moroccan Immigrant on Trial for Deadly Knife Attack in Belgian Café
  28 November 2023, by Sylvanus

  Accused in court of two murders and five attempted murders, Omar Benchamsy is currently on trial in Belgium. The statements of the man of Moroccan origin are surprising.
  The assize trial of Omar Benchamsy continues in Eupen. This resident of Baelen, born in Morocco in 1969 and arrived in Belgium in 2005, is accused of the murders of Ralph (54) and Vincent (47) and five attempted murders. The events took place during the night of October 14 to 15, 2021, in the "A Ge Pömpke" café, located (…)

• Algerian Singer Faudel Faces Alimony Case in Moroccan Court
  22 October 2024, by Prince

  Accused by his Franco-Algerian ex-wife of refusing to pay her alimony, the Algerian artist naturalized Moroccan Faudel will have to appear shortly before the court of first instance of Marrakech.
  The French justice system has already sentenced Faudel to pay alimony arrears to his ex-wife. To make this decision enforceable in Morocco, the latter, through her lawyer, has initiated proceedings before the court of first instance of Marrakech, the city where the singer resides with his (…)

• Moroccan Politician’s Son Jailed for Insulting Officer, DUI
  2 December 2021, by Prince

  The president of the commune of Brarha and eldest son of the former mayor of Fez, Naoufal Chabat, has been placed in pre-trial detention for insulting a public official and driving under the influence.
  Naoufal Chabat, the eldest son of the former Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party (PI) and current president of the commune of Brarha in the province of Taza, was placed in pre-trial detention on Wednesday at the local Bourkaiz prison, by the public prosecutor at the court of first (…)

• Moroccan Woman Sentenced to Life for 2012 Murder of Husband Buried in Garage
  23 May 2024, by Prince

  The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tétouan has just sentenced a Moroccan woman to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband.
  The judicial police of Tétouan announced on May 31, 2023 the arrest of a woman and her brother for their alleged involvement in the murder of the woman’s husband, which occurred in 2012 at the couple’s home in the Oued El Maleh neighborhood in Martil. The two suspects would have buried the victim’s body in the garage of the house before reporting (…)

• Moroccan-Canadian Woman on Trial for Assaulting Local Official in Property Dispute
  28 March, by Sylvanus

  During a brief hearing, the lawyer of the Moroccan living in Canada tried before the court of first instance of Témara for having slapped a caïd tried to justify the act and to get his client out of trouble.
  "My client is a woman who has been a victim of violence," stressed the lawyer of the MRE, Bouchaïb Essoufi, in a brief pleading on Wednesday. He accused the public authorities of "having acted according to negative behaviors". He assured that his client "was assaulted, which led to a (…)

• Undocumented Workers Sue French Waste Companies for Exploitation
  7 April, by Sylvanus

  In France, around ten undocumented workers, mostly from Morocco and Algeria, are demanding justice from the giants of the waste sector and a subcontractor who exploited them for several years, from 2019 to 2022, during the Covid-19 pandemic.
  "I worked at NTI for three years, without a contract. I sorted waste on the conveyor belt while I was pregnant. I had to work nights until the birth. Today, my daughter is three and a half years old," Hind tells RFI, coming with her little girl to the (…)

• Spanish Court Rules Algerian Migrant’s Expulsion to Morocco Unlawful
  30 March, by Prince

  The High Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) has confirmed the "nullity" of the return by the Moroccan authorities of an Algerian migrant who was trying to reach Ceuta by swimming.
  This "important decision" of the TSJA, which confirms the judgment of September 4, 2024, is welcomed by the associations Coordinadora de Barrios, No Name Kitchen and the Jesuit Migrant Service, who represented the Algerian migrant.
  "Since the Citizen Security Protection Law introduced this legal concept, the (…)