Omar Ettaleb, 34, a Moroccan sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2023 by default for committing a murder to ensure a theft against Ilyas Kosker, a 44-year-old man from Liège whose body was found in the province of Luxembourg, will be retried in a trial on Wednesday before the Liège Assize Court.
Border Police (PAF) officers, in coordination with specialist technicians from Argos, a vehicle theft detection organization, and the Sète police station, are conducting operations in the transit area of the Orsetti train station in Sète, targeting flows to Algeria. But the operations are mainly focused on flows to Morocco.
In Marrakech, thefts of items belonging to tourists are multiplying in tourist areas. The latest incident was recorded in a souk. The victim is a Swedish tourist.
A mountain bike stolen in Colomiers (Haute-Garonne) at the end of June was found in Morocco. Its new owner claims to have bought it legally.
Thieves compete with strategies on Spanish roads to lure vacationers. Some pretend to have a flat tire or a breakdown to force drivers to stop in order to strip them. Others do not hesitate to pose as police officers.
Moroccan MMA champion Ottman Azaitar had a luxury watch stolen from his hotel room at the Fouquet’s hotel in Paris. However, he refused to file a complaint.
The Mossos d’Esquadra have dismantled a network of stolen mobile phone trafficking from Barcelona, sold on the black market in Morocco and China. In total, about twenty people were arrested and more than a thousand smartphones seized.
The house of a Moroccan living in Spain was the target of a burglary in Driouch, where unknown individuals stole the entire contents of the premises.
Some 500 laptops stolen from the Santa Coloma de Gramenet high school in Catalonia would have been located in Morocco where they were sold at half price.
Commissions under the Ministry of the Interior are conducting investigations in the Casablanca-Settat and Marrakech-Safi regions, targeting elected officials, entrepreneurs and influential figures in several municipalities in these regions who have installed illegal connections to divert water and electricity.
In Khouribga, while she was traveling with her lover, a woman had all her savings stolen. The man’s wife and sister, the authors of the theft, were arrested and then detained.
Suspected of being involved in a theft committed in a bazaar located in the Kennaria district in the medina, a 56-year-old American tourist was arrested by the police services of the fourth district of Marrakech.