All judicial authorities must strictly engage in the fight against the illegal sale of medicines and non-medicinal pharmaceutical products. This is what the Attorney General of the King at the Court of Cassation, President of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, El Hassan Daki, invites them to do.
The Marrakech court will rule this Wednesday on the request for release on bail of Brahim Bouhlel and Zbarbooking, sentenced to eight months in prison in Morocco for having filmed and disseminated a video "of a person without his consent" and for "corruption of a minor".
Journalists Souleiman Raissouni and Omar Radi, both prosecuted for sexual assault, have been in pre-trial detention for nearly a year. Their lawyers continue to fight for their conditional release.
Charged with murder, Rachid M. will have spent four years in prison, victim of a judicial error for which he had been sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance, commuted to 20 years on appeal. His innocence was recognized after the real culprit confessed his crime.
A police sergeant and his repeat offender accomplice were arrested on Saturday evening in possession of cocaine doses. This seizure was made by the anti-drug brigade of the regional judicial police service of Al Hoceima.
Brahim Ghali , the Polisario leader currently hospitalized in Logroño, should face Spanish justice. Madrid investigating judge Santiago Pedraz Gomez would have issued a summons for his hearing on May 5, as well as that of other influential members of the separatist movement, following a complaint filed by one of their dissidents for "kidnapping, arbitrary detention and torture" in the Tindouf prisons.
Two suspected jihadists, originally from Morocco, arrested in May 2020 in Bolaños de Calatrava (Spain), face three and a half years in prison. They will be informed of their fate next Tuesday.
A Moroccan, a homeless person, who on Monday attacked with a group of young people two police officers in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis), was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison and a ban on staying in the department for five years.
The trial of the mayor of Marrakech, Mohamed Larbi Belcaid, and his deputy, Younes Benslimane, was postponed again this Friday by the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of the ochre city.
Mokhtar Ammari, a 57-year-old Moroccan residing in Belgium, murdered his wife Fatima Khayer, aged 48, on February 10, 2019, by stabbing her 23 times. During his trial on Friday before the Liège Assize Court, the civil party explained that the accused did not accept his wife’s decision to separate from him.
Journalist Omar Radi has suspended his hunger strike, which he began 21 days ago, for health reasons, his family announced.
While Morocco is in the process of legalizing the use of cannabis, many people believe that growers pose a danger to society. This is not the case for Omar Balafrej.