Robbery

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• Spanish Police Bust Crime Ring Led by Former Kickboxing Champion
  10 July 2019, by Kamal

  The network, made up of two Moroccans and four Spaniards, had as its main target the shops belonging to the Chinese community in Spain. It also embarked on the burglary of homes.
  Following the results of the preliminary investigation, the Spanish authorities decided to place the two Moroccan nationals in custody, while the four Spaniards were prosecuted on provisional release.
  The criminal network was led by a Moroccan, a former kickboxing champion (see photo), involved in several cases (…)

• Police Swiftly Arrest Robbers After Money Transfer Agency Heist in Mohammedia, Morocco
  14 July 2019, by Said

  They won’t have time to enjoy their loot. The robbers of a money transfer agency, located in Mohammedia, were arrested shortly after their act by the police.
  The details of this case are provided by the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN). Thus, it is a question of the robbery, by individuals, of an agency, after having threatened the employee with a bladed weapon. The suspects managed to get away with 21,000 dirhams.
  The investigation, conducted by the police, led to the (…)

• Third Suspect Arrested in Morocco Highway Robbery Case
  6 August 2019, by Sylvanus

  After the arrest of the two alleged accomplices of the acts of banditry on National Road 4 (RN 4), connecting Fez to Kénitra, the police finally arrested a third suspect.
  A third individual was arrested for his alleged involvement in the acts of banditism, which targeted, on the night of Monday, July 29, users of National Road 4 (RN 4) connecting Fez to Kénitra, at the level of the province of Meknes, announced the Meknes Prosecutor’s Office.
  The same source confirms that two other (…)

• Repeat Offender Arrested for Fatal Stabbing in Tangier Robbery
  17 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  A repeat offender involved in a homicide by stabbing was arrested this week in Bni Makada, Tangier, according to a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).
  Under the threat of a knife, an individual with a criminal record relieved two victims of a sum of money and a mobile phone, near the "Sidi Bou Haja" cemetery in Tangier, late at night. The latter, in full flight in a neighboring neighborhood, had no choice but to attack an individual who was trying to slow (…)

• Moroccan Women’s Rights Activist Robbed in Madrid Shopping Center
  21 October 2019, by Kamal

  Passing through Madrid to attend a human rights meeting, Moroccan activist Aïcha Chenna was the victim of a theft on the evening of Friday, October 18.
  During a visit to a shopping center, the Moroccan activist, famous for her defense of women, lost a handbag containing her passport, bank card, mobile phone and cash.
  Forced to spend Friday on the street without papers or money, Aïcha Chenna declared to the police that she suspected two women who were posing as employees within the (…)

• Notorious French Robber Faïd Speaks Out on Harsh Prison Conditions
  29 October 2019, by Sylvanus

  In solitary confinement, the repeat offender robber, Redoine Faïd, detained in one of the most secure prisons in France since his arrest in October 2018, confided in the Journal du Dimanche.
  "We are walled up alive." These are the words with which Redoine Faïd, 47, one of the most closely watched inmates in France, describes his prison isolation. "We see no one. We touch no one, in the literal and figurative sense. It is total exclusion: a life of pariah, of outcast of society," "we (…)

• Armed Robbers Target Marrakech Hammam, Customers Robbed at Swordpoint
  25 November 2019, by Sylvanus

  Armed with bladed weapons and swords, six individuals burst into a hammam located in the Sidi Youssef Ben Ali neighborhood of Marrakech on November 23, 2019. They robbed some customers of their belongings.
  The attack took place in a Moorish bath in the Sidi Youssef Ben Ali neighborhood. The preliminary investigation reveals that the assailants had acted under the influence of drugs. Upon arrival, two of them managed to subdue the employees by pointing bladed weapons at their temples. (…)

• Italian Court Sentences Two to Life for 2017 Murder of Moroccan Nationals
  9 December 2019, by Kamal

  Two years after the shooting deaths of two Moroccan nationals, an Italian court in the north of the country has sentenced the two perpetrators, Manuel Ferrari and Gianluca Forlaneli, to life imprisonment.
  According to the newspaper Eco di Bergamo, the two individuals are involved in the murder of Nabil El Karfi and El Moursali Abdenassar, two young Moroccans aged 25 and 23 respectively, in July 2017 in Bariano, on the banks of the Sirio river.
  Known for a high concentration of drug and (…)

• Armed Robbery at Barcelona Phone Store: Two Suspects Arrested
  9 December 2019, by Kamal

  The Catalan police arrested two Moroccan nationals who carried out the armed robbery of a mobile phone store in the suburbs of Barcelona.
  The scene of the theft, captured on video, dates back to November 12, when two individuals aged 29 and 31 had broken into an electronics store. While fleeing, the two men had seized a motorcycle in their path.
  According to the victim’s statements to the police, the two men seized 7,000 euros in cash and more than 33,000 euros in merchandise.
  In (…)

• Moroccan Court Sentences 12 to Prison in $500,000 Money Transfer Agency Heist
  7 February 2020, by Kamal

  Of the 15 people prosecuted for the robbery of 5 million dirhams from a money transfer agency in Tangier, 3 were acquitted, while the other 12 were sentenced to a total of 138 years in prison.
  The sentence was handed down on Tuesday, January 4, by the criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tangier. 12 defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison each, while 3 others received a one-year sentence.
  The 15 accused, who unanimously rejected the charges against them, were prosecuted (…)