
Spanish Court Exonerates Moroccan Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 100 Years in Rape Case
Mistaken for a rapist and sentenced to 100 years in prison, Ahmed Tommouhi , of Moroccan origin, was exonerated this Monday, May 5, by the Spanish Supreme Court.

Mistaken for a rapist and sentenced to 100 years in prison, Ahmed Tommouhi , of Moroccan origin, was exonerated this Monday, May 5, by the Spanish Supreme Court.

On the order of the King’s Attorney General at the Casablanca Court of Appeal, the national judicial police brigade in Casablanca is conducting an investigation into a complex case involving the spoliation of abandoned properties.

The Paris Criminal Court has sentenced two individuals to prison for arms trafficking - some of which were destined for Morocco - and drug trafficking.

After a long series of postponements, the appeal trial of Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, sentenced in 2023 to six years in prison for rape and aggravated violence against a French woman, will soon open in France.

Of Moroccan origin, Abdelkrim Grini, 54, is the prosecutor who led the first three days of investigation after the murder of Aboubakar Cissé, a Malian stabbed to death in a mosque in Gard.

The Khouribga Court of Appeal has upheld the one-year prison sentence of an Islamist activist for "defamation". The accused receives this sentence for his publications on the Gaza war, deemed offensive towards Saudi Arabia.

The examination of the Reda Abakrim case, nicknamed "Turbo", the main accused in the kidnapping and murder of artist Rym Fikri’s husband, begins before the criminal chamber of the Casablanca Court of Appeal.

The criminal chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal has just sentenced Hassan Benhamza, 34, to 20 years in prison and nearly 50,000 euros in damages for the murder of Mehdi Ettir , a 23-year-old man stabbed to death in 2011 in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris.

In pre-trial detention awaiting his trial scheduled for June, Driss, accused of drug trafficking, requested his release on Friday to treat a cancer relapse. The Montauban court rejected his request.

The young man in his twenties admitted to the facts and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Rabat Court of Appeal. He had slit his language teacher’s throat on the grounds that he had been sexually assaulted by him.

While they thought he had fled to Morocco, Belgian investigators finally arrested Ali O., convicted in two separate trials for drug trafficking and membership in a criminal organization in the Antwerp region. He is currently incarcerated in Antwerp prison, Belgium.

The behavior of Saïd Naciri, former president of Wydad Casablanca, prosecuted in the "Desert Escobar" case, nicknamed after Malian drug trafficker Mohamed Benbrahim, has irritated Judge Ali Tarchi.