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• Landmark 1963 Trial: 5,000 Moroccan Opposition Activists Accused of Conspiracy Against Monarchy
  5 August 2019, by Kamal

  The most famous trials, which marked the 1960s and 1970s, condemned freedom of expression and targeted the opposition that the monarchical regime considered a threat, in particular the two leading opposition parties, the current Union of Socialist Forces (USFP) and the National Union of Moroccan Students (UNEM).
  On July 16, 1963, the country experienced the most famous political trial in its history. 5,000 USFP activists were prosecuted on charges of conspiracy against the regime and (…)

• Royal Palace Staff Implicated in Million-Dirham Red Mercury Scam
  12 February 2019, by Amine

  Seven people appeared before the public prosecutor on Sunday for fraud and issuing a bad check. Among them were two individuals working at the royal college.
  The daily Assabah explains that two palace employees would have made a woman believe that they would act as intermediaries so that she could do business with a retired colonel and professionals in the red mercury trade.
  The palace employees would have given this woman a bad check and claimed that they had bought 3 grams of red (…)

• Morocco’s King Mohammed VI Undergoes Successful Heart Surgery for Cardiac Arrhythmia
  15 June 2020, by Bladi.net

  King Mohammed VI was admitted on Sunday, June 14, to the Royal Palace Clinic in Rabat. The Moroccan sovereign underwent successful surgery there.
  The king, after presenting a recurrence of atrial flutter cardiac arrhythmia on a healthy heart, was operated on successfully, reports the MAP.
  Mohammed VI’s doctors recommended additional radiofrequency ablation, which took place in the same clinic. According to the same source, the intervention was completely successful, like the previous (…)

• Moroccan Royal Guard Fatally Stabbed in Tangier Robbery Attempt
  13 October 2020, by Kamal

  The city of Tangier was shaken on Sunday evening by a vicious crime committed in the city center. A member of the Royal Gendarmerie, assigned to the Royal Palace of Tangier, was fatally stabbed by 3 individuals.
  While walking near the Press House in Tangier, a gendarme was surprised by 3 individuals who wanted to relieve him of his wallet and mobile phone. Having fiercely resisted, the man was stabbed in the heart.
  The 28-year-old man, who had just celebrated his wedding, succumbed to (…)

• King Mohammed VI Gifts Pope Francis Symbolic DVD of Woman’s Historic Religious Talk
  8 April 2019, by Said

  King Mohammed VI has the custom of offering gifts to foreign officials visiting Morocco. This was also the case for Pope Francis, who visited Morocco on March 30 and 31 for his first visit to the kingdom.
  Among the gifts offered by the Moroccan sovereign, a DVD that has all the makings of a symbol, as noted by the weekly Jeune Afrique. It is the "DVD of the first religious talk of Ramadan given by a woman, Raja Mekkaoui". This happened on November 5, 2003 and the theme was the Surat (…)

• King Mohammed VI Appoints New Moroccan Ambassadors to Key Nations and EU
  26 June 2019, by Said

  King Mohammed VI appointed several new Ambassadors at the Royal Palace in Rabat on Tuesday, June 25, 2019. Some embassies were vacant and others were reinforced with the arrival of personalities with a lot of experience.
  - Hassan Abou Ayoub, Ambassador to Romania and Moldova,
  • Khalid Naciri (Jordan)
  • Youssef El Amrani, (South Africa, Botswana, Malawi and Eswatini)
  • Mohamed Ali Lazrak (Turkey)
  • Zouhour Alaoui (Germany)
  • Azzedine Farhane (Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia)
  • Lotfi (…)

• King Mohammed VI to Address Parliament in Opening Session Speech
  8 October 2021, by Armel

  This Friday, King Mohammed VI will deliver a speech to Parliament on the occasion of the opening of the first session of the first legislative year of the 11th legislature.
  This opening message from the King will be delivered from the Royal Palace, due to the preventive measures in force, the statement from the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery said.
  On this occasion, the sovereign has given his guidelines "in order to guarantee the safety of the (…)

• King Mohammed VI Hosts Elite Moroccan Families on Luxury Superyacht ’Badis 1’
  21 July 2019, by Kamal

  On Sunday, July 14, King Mohammed VI invited around a hundred personalities from wealthy families in the cities of Casablanca and Rabat to visit his large yacht, "Badis 1". Classified among the ten largest yachts in the world, "Badis 1" was moored in front of the Royal Palace in M’diq.
  More than a hundred personalities were invited on Sunday, July 14, 2019, for a special visit of the Sovereign’s new acquisition, on the occasion of its first opening to the public.
  According to the (…)

• King Mohammed VI’s Inner Circle: The Power Players Shaping Morocco’s Monarchy
  30 July 2019, by Kamal

  The magazine Jeune Afrique has devoted a special report to the influential men in the shadow of King Mohammed VI. An investigation into the network of the main personalities surrounding the King and who constitute the basic pillars in the functioning of the monarchy.
  Shadow of the Sovereign and trusted man, Fouad Ali Himma is a childhood friend who was appointed Secretary of State to the Ministry of the Interior upon the King’s accession. Promoted to Minister Delegate to the Minister of (…)

• Man Faces Trial for Repeated Attempts to Disrupt Moroccan King’s Procession
  11 November 2019, by Kamal

  Placed in pre-trial detention since June 25 by the investigating judge, the employee of a microfinance company will be brought before the criminal chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal on Monday, November 11, for attempted obstruction of the Royal Procession and disruption of traffic.
  Arrested in December 2018 by the security services on the boulevard of the first air base in Salé, as he was preparing to intercept the royal convoy, the individual had been released after signing a (…)