The trial of the three Agen police officers suspected of having assaulted a young Moroccan during his arrest and custody opened on Thursday, May 20 before the judicial court of Auch. The public prosecutor requested sentences of three to five months in prison with a suspended sentence and a temporary ban on practicing for three months for the defendants.
French journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet will be tried in Paris for "blackmail" against King Mohammed VI. They are accused of having threatened to publish embarrassing information about the Moroccan monarch if their silence was not bought at a negotiated price of two million euros.
Despite the 2019 note from the public prosecutor’s office on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (LBCT), several public prosecutors continue to twist the law. Yet Morocco needs its strict enforcement to obtain its ticket out of the FATF gray list, hence the strict reminder from the public prosecutor’s office.
Eighteen years after the Casablanca attacks (May 16, 2003) which left 45 dead and dozens injured, the security approach adopted by Morocco to face terrorist dangers and threats seems to be producing tangible results. On Monday, the anniversary of the Casablanca attacks, the assessment drawn up by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) shows a real anti-terrorist offensive led by the kingdom internally and internationally.
Around thirty children under the age of 12 and their mothers living in the camps in Syria will have to be repatriated to Belgium, according to a decision taken in early March by the Belgian government.
The National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) has a brand new headquarters to house its services in charge of criminal investigations. The infrastructure was officially inaugurated on Sunday in Casablanca.
The elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Echemmaia have dismantled a drug trafficking network to which belongs an authority agent working in the Dar Bouâouda region under the province of Youssoufia.
Spanish political scientist Pedro Ignacio Altamirano had filed a complaint for death threats against Polisario leader Brahim Ghali with the investigating judge of the Malaga court. The latter gave a favorable response to this complaint and decided to bring the case before the National Court.
Four people, including a woman, were arrested by the judicial police elements of Tetouan. They would be involved in a case of fraud and theft reported by a currency exchange office in Tetouan.
Badr Hari has been ordered by the Ghent court in Belgium to pay 50,000 euros in damages to the kickboxing organization Enfusion . The Moroccan kickboxer was found guilty of breach of contract.
Designated as the main suspect in the murder of Mohammed Alillou in July 2018 in Bergerac, a Moroccan expressed his regrets before the Dordogne Assize Court. He faces 30 years of criminal imprisonment. Three other people are also on trial.
Prosecuted for "interference without title in public functions", Mohamed Boutaâm , journalist, editor-in-chief of the local news site Tizpress, and also correspondent for several Arabic-language dailies in the Souss region, was acquitted on Monday. This is the verdict handed down by the court of first instance of Tiznit, on Monday, May 10.