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• Moroccan Man Gets 13-Year Sentence in France for Violent Sexual Assaults
  17 October 2020, by Jérôme

  Hamza Naoui Khir, a Moroccan national, was tried last Tuesday by the Assizes Court of Finistère, in Quimper. He was sentenced to thirteen years in prison and a permanent ban from French territory.
  The 43-year-old man was accused of sexual abuse on two women, one of whom was vulnerable, reports Le Télégramme, specifying that the facts date back to June 27, 2018 in Brest.
  Around 7:30 a.m., after violently beating her, Hamza Naoui Khir forced a 26-year-old woman to perform fellatio in the (…)

• Nearly Half of Migrants Face Violence While Transiting Through Morocco, Study Finds
  23 April 2019, by Amine

  The passage of nearly half of illegal migrants through Morocco would not leave good memories, according to a report published by the Spanish agency CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Research), done in collaboration with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).
  According to 2017 figures, while 92% of people who reached Spain passed through Morocco, 48% said they had been victims of violence there, especially around Ceuta and Melilla.
  The CSIC writes: "These allegations (…)

• Female Gang in Fez Arrested for Kidnapping and Torturing Men for Ransom
  29 June 2019, by Amine

  The security forces of the city of Fez have just neutralized a gang composed almost exclusively of very dangerous women. They kidnapped men and did not hesitate to injure them, in order to obtain a ransom.
  Taking advantage of their beauty and physical assets, these 4 women, whose ages range from the twenties to the thirties, attracted men to an apartment rented for this purpose, promising them festive nights. Once there, the trap closed on them and the nightmare began.
  In this regard, (…)

• Journalist Faces Death Threats After Controversial Islam Comments on French TV
  10 July 2019, by Kamal

  In December 2018, Zineb El Rhazoui had made a statement about Islam on the CNews set. "You know what we put, what content we put today in radicalization associations? We’re going to tell radicalized people that Islam is a religion of peace and love and that you shouldn’t criticize, you shouldn’t speak ill of the prophet," she had said.
  Her statements had had the effect of a bomb on social networks, provoking virulent reactions from Internet users. Several of them had threatened her with (…)

• Europe Urges Security Measures as Polisario Threatens Armed Conflict in Western Sahara
  6 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  The danger threatening Morocco in the face of the Polisario’s threat to take up arms again is worrying Europe. The old continent is calling for the securing of traffic passing through El Guerguerat to counter, at any time, the invasion of the militiamen of the separatist movement on the Atlantic coast.
  The call for the compulsory enlistment of all the Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps, for the taking up of arms, in anticipation of an inevitable resumption of the war against Morocco, is (…)

• Islamic Chants Reported in Calls to Paris Police Stations, Sparking Terrorism Concerns
  11 October 2019, by Ginette

  One week after the attack on the Paris Police Headquarters, which left four dead, several police stations in Île-de-France are under high tension.
  Indeed, according to 20Minutes.fr, they have recently received strange telephone calls with Islamic chants. The Prefect of Police says he has filed a complaint against an unknown person for glorification of terrorism with the Paris Prosecutor’s Office.
  According to the same source, the police stations that have been the victims of this type of (…)

• Auto Sales Plummet 85% as COVID-19 Devastates Car Industry
  4 June 2020, by Ginette

  The drop is dizzying and shows a sector in full decline in terms of sales due to covid-19. In one month, dealers sold barely 1,788 passenger vehicles against 11,939 in May 2019. A bitter observation that makes the players in the sector think.
  Before covid-19, the national automotive market was going through a bad patch and "was counting on the show this year to get back on track. But unfortunately, the slump has become widespread, further undermining a sector that was already weakened." (…)

• Belgian NGO Cancels Morocco Volunteer Program Amid Shorts Controversy
  9 August 2019, by Bladi.net

  All subsequent camps will be canceled. This is the decision of the Belgian NGO, Bouworde, following the death threats the volunteer girls faced because of wearing shorts on a construction site in Taroudant.
  "On the advice of the Belgian authorities, it has been decided not to authorize a new group to go to Morocco in the current circumstances and given the great uproar around this affair which has found an echo in the press and social media," says a note published on the website of the (…)

• French Senator Launches Fundraiser for Controversial Anti-Islamist Journalist
  17 November 2019, by Bladi.net

  Bruno Retailleau has no intention of letting go of Zineb El Rhazoui, the former "Charlie Hebdo" journalist and figure in the fight against political Islam, whose recent statements have sparked a lively controversy on social networks. The boss of the Les Républicains senators has chosen Twitter to launch a support kitty for the Franco-Moroccan journalist on Friday, November 15.
  The "fight against Islamic totalitarianism" has "an enormous cost", according to Bruno Retailleau who, on Friday (…)

• French Law Tightens Telemarketing Rules, Challenging Moroccan Call Centers
  28 September 2020, by Bladi.net

  Law No. 2020-901 of July 24, 2020, adopted by the French National Assembly since 2018, published in the Official Journal of Saturday, July 25, 2020, aims to regulate telephone canvassing and fight against fraudulent calls. The impact of this law will be brutal for some customer relationship centers but only those that are specialized in telephone prospecting and making calls in these areas of activity, says Rachida Belliard, founder and director of development of Pertinence Formation & (…)