A complaint for crimes against humanity targeting an Israeli soldier has been addressed to the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal of Rabat by lawyers from Marrakech.
Found guilty by the judges of the Versailles Court of Appeal in a racketeering case, the former mayor of Mantes-La-Jolie, Sidi El Haimer, a leading figure of the Polisario in the Paris region, sentenced in January 2023 to a suspended one-year prison sentence, sees his sentence increased.
Accused of having killed Lydia, her two-month-old daughter, in a hotel room in Saint-Gilles on February 19, 2019, 31-year-old influencer Soraya Sahli appeared before the Brussels Assize Court on Wednesday.
Closed since the end of May on the decision of the Versailles administrative court, which had placed the Association of Muslims of Mantes South (AMMS) under judicial liquidation on April 23, the Mantes-la-Ville mosque is welcoming its worshippers again.
A year after the death of Socayna, her eldest daughter, a 24-year-old student killed on September 10, 2023 by a stray bullet that crossed the wall of her room in the Saint-Thys neighborhood in Marseille, Leïla is having trouble mourning. Since the arrest and indictment for murder of a minor of 16 years old suspected of being the shooter of the burst that killed the young woman on a drug dealing point, nothing more. She denounces "the deafening silence of the authorities" and demands justice.
After a quarter of a century on the run, the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco has been placed in pre-trial detention in prison. He will be retried for a criminal case in which he was convicted in absentia to 10 years in prison.
In Tétouan, the real estate mafia reigns supreme, denounces the Human Rights Observatory, which calls for an end to the impunity of those responsible who expropriate state property and the property of others.
The court of first instance in Al Hoceima recently sentenced a dangerous drug trafficker by helicopter to ten years in prison.
The draft Penal Code provides for sanctions against hotels that refuse access to women residing in the same city, warned Abdellatif Ouahbi, the Minister of Justice.
In Belgium, the son of a Moroccan woman was sentenced to six years in prison for the attempted murder of his romantic rival and one year in prison for possession of cannabis. Dissatisfied, he pleads for a suspended sentence.
The appeal trial of plastic surgeon Hassan Tazi and his co-defendants will open next week before the Casablanca Court of Appeal.
In Morocco, the establishment of alternative sentences instead of pre-trial detention is now a reality. Published in the latest Official Journal (No. 7328), dated August 22, 2024, Law No. 43.22 on alternative sentences has officially come into force.