
Morocco Cracks Down: GenZ Protesters Face 20-Year Sentences
In Morocco, the perpetrators of criminal acts during the recent demonstrations organized by the GenZ 212 group risk up to 20 years in prison, according to the public prosecutor’s office.

In Morocco, the perpetrators of criminal acts during the recent demonstrations organized by the GenZ 212 group risk up to 20 years in prison, according to the public prosecutor’s office.

According to an official Moroccan source, some 193 suspects are being prosecuted after the acts of vandalism and violence recorded during the unauthorized demonstrations organized in recent days in several cities of the kingdom.

The public prosecutor’s office of the Créteil Court of Appeal has requested a sentence of 18 years of criminal imprisonment against Salim Berrada, the "Tinder rapist", accused of rapes and sexual assaults by 17 women.

As her trial continues before the Tongres Assize Court, Nora R., a mother accused of murdering her newborn in February 2018, was conspicuously absent on Monday for a surprising reason.

The public prosecutor’s office of the Aïn Sebaâ district court in Casablanca has prosecuted a business woman specialized in currency exchange for fraud and aggravated fraud, suspected of having misappropriated, with the complicity of her husband currently on the run, nearly 100 million dirhams from dozens of Moroccan and foreign victims.

The sixteen members of the far-right group AFO, tried for planning violent actions against Muslims in France, will be informed of their fate this Tuesday, at the end of their trial before the Paris criminal court.

Based on precise intelligence from the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), elements of the Marrakech prefecture police successfully apprehended a French national, who was the subject of an international arrest warrant issued against him by the French judicial authorities.

The Audiencia Nacional has decided to withdraw Spanish nationality from a Moroccan residing for more than 20 years in Villamante, in the Community of Madrid, with his Spanish wife and children, considering that he has not provided proof of his success in the Spanish language proficiency exam (DELE).

Suffocated by a dizzying increase in expenses related to legal disputes, the Tangier council is requesting the Ministry of the Interior to include a provision of 80 million dirhams in the 2026 budget to cover these costs.

The Moroccan justice system is investigating the illegal transformation of a social complex financed by the National Initiative for Human Development into a private hotel in Sidi Kacem. Eight senior officials from the Gharb region are now banned from leaving the territory.

In Taza, the young Imane was attacked in the street by her ex-husband with a bladed weapon. Seriously injured in the face, she underwent 130 stitches. A case that recalls the tragedy of Amina Filali and reignites the debate on the protection of women in Morocco.

One of the 17 victims of Salim Berrada, the "Tinder rapist", testified on Friday during the appeal trial before the Créteil Assize Court.