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• Toulouse Man Sentenced for Kidnapping Woman Who Refused Marriage Proposal
  12 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  A man had kidnapped a young woman in his home in Toulouse for hours, in a car because of her refusal to marry him. The Evry-Courcouronnes criminal court sentenced him to 10 months in prison with a suspended sentence.
  "He wanted to marry me, I had no intention of doing so," the young woman confided to the investigators. Adam* had made his proposal to Malika* on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, reports actuEssonne. "I needed an explanation," the defendant replied to the president of the (…)

• French Prisoner’s Health Deteriorates in Moroccan Jail Amid Extradition Delays
  27 March 2020, by Bladi.net

  Incarcerated in Morocco since December 2018, under an arrest warrant issued for a case of domestic violence, and then for drug trafficking, the brother of Célia, a Toulousain, is dying while awaiting his extradition to France to receive care and escape a likely COVID-19 contamination in the Rabat prison.
  Célia’s ordeal, the younger sister of this 34-year-old Toulousain, began when she learned of her brother’s arrest in Morocco. For 18 months, she has been running to try to get him out of (…)

• Dozens of Toulouse Families Stranded in Morocco Amid Coronavirus Travel Ban
  5 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  About fifty Toulouse families find themselves stranded in some Maghreb countries including Morocco, due to the suspension of air flights because of the coronavirus. They are desperate day by day.
  "For more than a week now, families from our neighborhoods in Mirail have been without a solution. Their return flights to France have been canceled. These families, whose testimony we have collected by telephone, say they go to the airports, crowded, every day from 5 a.m.," says Djamila Bouras, (…)

• Toulouse Family Prepares for Ramadan Under COVID-19 Restrictions
  26 April 2020, by Sylvanus

  In this context of health crisis and confinement, Muslims in France will spend a very special month of Ramadan. The Amri family will be no exception.
  Friday, April 24, the beginning of the month of Ramadan in France. In Toulouse, Alia, a mother from the Bagatelle district, is busy in the kitchen. She attaches great importance to respecting the restrictive measures imposed in order to counter covid-19. Despite the confinement and the fear of contagion, "we keep smiling," says Alia, (…)

• Stranded French Tourists Praise Moroccan Hospitality Amid Travel Restrictions
  19 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Confined in Aït Bihi, a small village above Taghazout, the Toulousaine Sophie praises the hospitality of the Moroccans. She and her daughter, Juliana, are waiting for "more reasonable solutions" for their repatriation to France.
  "Originally from the Toulouse region, we arrived in Agadir on Thursday, March 12 for 8 days. The next day, Morocco closed its borders, our return flight was canceled. Like many others, we found ourselves stranded here," Sophie recounts by email.
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• Stranded French Retirees Await Morocco’s Reopening for Return Home
  25 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  Leaving Eaunes near Toulouse in February, Michel and Elisabeth are among the retirees stranded in a campsite in Mirhleft, 150 kilometers south of Agadir on the shores of the ocean. Without any response on a possible repatriation, these campers are just waiting for June 10, the day of the gradual deconfinement of Morocco, to return home.
  This retired couple was a thousand leagues away from imagining that their sixth tourist visit to Morocco would take longer than expected. He had joined (…)

• Toulouse Fraud Ring Exposed: Moroccan Firms Linked to Illegal Investment Scheme
  30 June 2020, by Sylvanus

  In total, 16 business providers managed to approach potential clients who had been promised astronomical returns. Two of these canvassers, L. M. and L.F, both aged 47, have been indicted for illegal exercise of financial investment advisory activity, reports La Dépêche. They are also accused of having respectively received 57,000 € and 328,000 € in fees as intermediaries.
  These amounts would have directly transited through the Moroccan companies of Mike Layani, which offered juicy (…)

• Toulouse Doctoral Student Wins "3-Minute Thesis" Contest with Endometriosis Research
  18 July 2020, by Ginette

  Oumaima El Mansouri, a doctoral student at the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, has just won the "My thesis in 180 seconds" competition organized by France 3 Occitanie, jointly with the CNRS and the Conference of University Presidents.
  The principle of the competition is very simple. You have to explain the thesis you are working on in three minutes. Given the realities of the moment marked by a global health crisis, it is in a 3-minute video that Oumaima El Mansouri presented her (…)

• French Man Jailed for Impersonating Extremist, Sharing Beheading Image Online
  25 October 2020, by Bladi.net

  In the case of the beheaded professor, a 20-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison, including two months firm, for apologizing for terrorism. Several charges were brought against him.
  Originally from Toulouse, the young man had shared a tweet from the Conflans terrorist, in which the head of the history teacher appeared. He also created a profile, "a radical Islamist Muslim", on a forum known to deceive Internet users. This act occurred on Friday, October 16, the very (…)

• Moroccan Chef Wins France’s Top Couscous Award in Toulouse
  23 November 2020, by Sylvanus

  Moroccan Hamid Miss, chef of La Pente Douce in Toulouse, was awarded the prize for the best couscous in France.
  "I was surprised to have been selected among 109 candidates from all over France and to have been selected among the five best. I was even more surprised when I found out I had won. I am especially happy to have brought this award to Toulouse," he told La Dépêche. The dish of this 45-year-old chef won over the jury of the culinary show on Paris Première "Très, Très bon".
  This (…)