Theft

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• Iberia Expands Morocco Routes with New Madrid-Fez Flights for Summer 2020
  14 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  The Spanish airline Iberia is preparing to launch a new Madrid-Fez connection in the summer of 2020.
  The Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft with a capacity of 141 to 180 passengers will operate four flights per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, for five weeks, Iberia said in a statement.
  The flights concern four destinations: Marrakech, Casablanca, Tangier and now Fez, the company specifies.
  The Spanish airline will also offer other connections from Madrid to Ljubljana (…)

• Moroccan Police Bust Gang Targeting Homes of Expatriates in El Hajeb Region
  26 April 2019, by Said

  Police sources cited by the newspaper Aujourd’hui le Maroc indicate that all 4 were arrested by the royal gendarmerie of Sabaâ Aïyoun, near the town of El Hajeb. They are accused of having targeted houses belonging to Moroccans living abroad and then burglarizing them. In total, at least 8 houses were vandalized.
  According to the same source, it is a group of 4 people, three of whom have already had problems with the law in the past. Questioned by the investigators, they all admitted to (…)

• Moroccan Youths Face Decade in Prison for Chicken Theft, Despite Withdrawn Complaint
  12 May 2019, by Amine

  Three people could face up to 10 years in prison for stealing a chicken in Ouarzazate. There are aggravating circumstances against them...
  According to Alyaoum24, three young people are being prosecuted under arrest for the theft of a chicken. The theft was committed last April. The owner of the chicken, having seen the scale the matter was taking, withdrew his complaint, but they will nevertheless be prosecuted by the competent authorities who wish for a sentence as an example. (…)

• Moroccan Man Sentenced for Possessing 350 Stolen Phones at French Border
  19 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  On October 27, a resident of Dreux in France was surprised by the Moroccan customs, in possession of 350 phones of the same brand, in his trunk. The goods, as well as his car, were confiscated by the customs officers. The French justice system was seized. The investigators hoped to trace back a network of burglars, but nothing linked the Dreux resident to the burglary.
  "I have nothing to do with the theft," assures Lhassan Daoudi, a 48-year-old resident of Dreux, in the Chartres court. (…)

• Grave Robbers Target Christian Cemetery in Casablanca for Precious Metals
  25 May 2019, by Amine

  A gang has just been dismantled in Casablanca. It was active in desecrating the tombs of Christian people, not for necromantic purposes... But for the gold and precious metals that are buried with the bodies of the deceased.
  Thus, according to Assabah, for more than a year these tomb robbers have been digging, removing the wooden coffins, and looking for the jewelry they could take, in the Christian cemetery located on Mehdi Ben Barka Avenue in Casablanca.
  However, these profanations (…)

• Stranded Algerians Seek Help as Morocco-Algeria Flights Suspended Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
  14 March 2020, by Sylvanus

  While Morocco and Algeria have "mutually" suspended their air links, in order to effectively deal with the spread of the coronavirus, about a hundred Algerian passengers are stuck in the kingdom.
  This decision immediately led to the cancellation of the flight of the national airline Air Algérie which was to repatriate these Algerians, reports TSA-Algérie.
  Desperate, the passengers blocked in Morocco went to the Algerian embassy in Rabat, where they informed the Algerian consular (…)

• Spanish Consul General’s Phone Stolen in Rabat, Two Suspects Arrested
  28 May 2019, by Amine

  A snatching theft whose victim is none other than the Spanish Consul General has just taken place in Rabat. The thieves would be two people, including an engineering student.
  As he was leaving his workplace, the Spanish Consul General in Morocco was the victim of a snatching theft, by an individual who took his mobile phone from him before fleeing with another individual who was accompanying him. One of them was wearing traditional white clothes. In other words, he was probably not (…)

• Morocco Blacklists Chinese Nationals Over In-Flight Theft Concerns
  2 June 2019, by Kamal

  For some time now, cases of thefts perpetrated by Chinese citizens during air flights have forced the Ministry of the Interior to establish a blacklist of Chinese nationals banned from staying in Morocco. The perpetrators would use various subterfuges to steal sums of money from their victims.
  According to the daily Al Massae, a Moroccan national was defrauded of the equivalent of 60,000 dirhams in Qatari dinars, on board a flight from the Gulf. Following the complaint filed with the (…)

• Suspect Arrested in Marrakech Home Burglary After Police Investigation
  5 June 2019, by Bladi.net

  Through technical and scientific expertise and parallel investigations, the police managed to apprehend an individual who committed a burglary in the ochre city.
  According to a security source cited by Hespress, it was the intense search operations based on technical and scientific expertise and parallel investigations that allowed the police to identify and arrest the suspect. This, after a complaint from the victim against an unknown person, regarding a theft in his home.
  Once (…)

• Mob Justice Sparks Controversy in Morocco After Alleged Thief Brutally Beaten
  4 June 2019, by Amine

  A thief has undoubtedly just had the worst day of his life after dozens of citizens caught him in the act of theft, in Ezzhiliga (Khémisset), at the souk, according to what is said.
  A video was taken of this thief who was stripped (completely naked), beaten, humiliated, spat on, punched and kicked, and insulted. The latter begged the crowd to stop, but to no avail. He could have been killed, according to several media, including the Goud website. This happened on May 30.
  It is not yet (…)