Sébastien A.
Algeria, the protector of the Polisario, is taking a new hostile gesture against Rabat. It has authorized a pseudo Rif National Party (PNR), known for its aspirations for independence of the Rif in Morocco, to inaugurate its official representation in the upscale neighborhoods of Algiers, in Poirson, in a villa belonging to the authorities.
In Casablanca, the famous private beach, Tahiti Beach Club, has not been in operation since February 29, 2024. This is due to a decision by the local authorities.
The Moroccan justice system has banned the controversial Salafist preacher known on social networks as "Abou Ammar" from leaving the country. He is the subject of complaints for defamation and slander.
In Morocco, calls for the cancellation of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the kingdom and Israel continue to multiply. The signatories of a petition have addressed correspondence to King Mohammed VI and Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch in this regard.
Spain wants to take an active part in the project to expand the Moroccan rail network, especially the high-speed lines. The subject was on the agenda of a meeting between Mohamed Abdeljalil, Moroccan Minister of Transport and Logistics, and his Spanish counterpart Óscar Puente, on a working visit to Rabat.
Casablanca could change its appearance in the coming months. A series of measures, including the ban on the installation of satellite dishes on building facades and roofs, could be taken by Wali Mohamed Mhidia.
So far, the Moroccan international Sofyan Amrabat has not been able to establish himself at Old Trafford. His club, Fiorentina, which loaned him to Manchester United, fears that he will lose market value and that the English club will not exercise its purchase option.
The investigators of the criminal brigade of the judicial police of Versailles are working to solve the murder of Moustapha, the 57-year-old Moroccan, shot dead in front of his children in the night of Wednesday, March 1 to Thursday, March 2, 2023, in the Muette district of Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise) and the murder of Amine Benouda, a close associate commissioned a year earlier.
Leaving for Syria in the company of his older brother and his best friend, a Franco-Moroccan managed to leave a Jabhat al-Nosra, affiliated with Al-Qaeda, katiba to return to France. After being sentenced to 4 years in prison, including 1 year suspended probation in the first instance and on appeal in 2017 and 2018, he publishes a confessional book to close this chapter of his life, but also "to raise awareness among young people who could be seduced by jihadist propaganda".
British scientists have conducted a study on the star-shaped dune, Lala Lallia, formed 13,000 years ago, in Erg Chebbi, near Merzouga, in southeastern Morocco. A first.
Mathieu Kassovitz, the 56-year-old actor and director, settles his accounts with his colleague, the Franco-Moroccan actor Saïd Taghmaoui , whose insults he can no longer stand. He even proposes a boxing match to him.
As the month of Ramadan begins on March 11, Moroccans are struggling to agree on the issue of eating in public during fasting. An act that remains severely punished by the Penal Code.