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• Casablanca Ordered to Pay Compensation After Stray Dog Attack on Woman
  5 October 2024, by Sylvanus

  Victim of an attack by stray dogs on the public road, a woman filed a complaint against the Casablanca municipal council represented by Mayor Nabila Rmili, the Wilaya of the region and the Local Development Company.
  On Thursday, the Administrative Court of First Instance in Casablanca ordered the Casablanca Municipal Council to pay 50,000 dirhams to the woman attacked by stray dogs for the physical and psychological damages suffered. The victim had filed a lawsuit against the Casablanca (…)

• Plastic Surgeon’s Trial Expands: Family Members Face Fraud Allegations in Casablanca Clinic Case
  7 October 2023, by Sylvanus

  The trial of the famous plastic surgeon, Dr Hassan Tazi, owner of the Chifaa clinic, incarcerated for, among other things, human trafficking, abuse of weakness and fraud, continues before the Court of Appeal of Casablanca. Serious charges have been brought against his brother and his wife.
  Things are getting complicated for the brother of Dr. Hassan Tazi, director of the Chifaa clinic, and the surgeon’s wife. At the bar, an employee of the clinic’s accounting department, who is in (…)

• Moroccan Activist’s Sentence Reduced, Appeals Conviction for Facebook Protest Posts
  22 February 2023, by Said

  The human rights activist, Rida Benotmane, has seen his prison sentence reduced from three years to one and a half years by the Moroccan justice system. He had been convicted for publishing on Facebook comments calling for protests against the "extremism" of the police in Morocco. He has decided to appeal.
  The activist’s mother welcomed the reduction of the sentence, but also stressed that she considered it a "minimal victory over injustice". Amnesty International had called for the (…)

• Controversial Moroccan Plastic Surgeon’s Appeal Trial Set to Begin in Casablanca
  2 September 2024, by Prince

  The appeal trial of plastic surgeon Hassan Tazi and his co-defendants will open next week before the Casablanca Court of Appeal.
  The famous surgeon had been sentenced on May 3 by the court of first instance in Casablanca to 3 years in prison, including two years firm and one with probation. Detained at the Oukacha prison since his arrest two years ago, Dr. Hassan Tazi was released after this sentence, recalls Al3omk.
  Tazi was acquitted of "human trafficking" and "participation and (…)

• Father and Friends Face Trial for Vigilante Attack on Teen Assault Suspect
  29 October 2022, by Sylvanus

  The trial of a father and his three friends will open before the criminal court in early 2023. They are suspected of having beaten up a 16-year-old teenager, accused of having sexually assaulted his 6-year-old daughter in Roanne.
  Pending the opening of their trial, the public prosecutor’s office has requested the placement under judicial supervision of this father of a 6-year-old child and his three friends. After their arrest and placement in police custody, they will first have to be (…)

• Plastic Surgeon Defends Wife in Ongoing Fraud Appeal Trial
  2 February, by Sylvanus

  The appeal trial of plastic surgeon Dr. Hassan Tazi, sentenced on May 3 to three years in prison, two of which were firm and one suspended, and then released, and his co-defendants, continues before the Court of Appeal of Casablanca.
  If Dr. Hassan Tazi has regained his freedom after spending two years in prison, his wife Mounia Benchekroun, who was sentenced to four years in prison, is still in prison. During his hearing at the Casablanca court last Friday, the famous surgeon accused of (…)

• Major Drug Trafficking Trial Opens in Spain: 152 Accused Face Staggering Sentences
  10 April 2023, by Prince

  The trial of Antonio Tejón "El Castaña", head of one of the most active Moroccan hashish trafficking networks in the Campo de Gibraltar, as well as 151 of his collaborators, will open at the provincial court of Cádiz. The prosecution has requested against them sentences of 1,787 years in prison and €15.18 billion in fines.
  The trafficker, even in prison in 2020, continued to lead his activities and to introduce Moroccan hashish bales on the Andalusian coast. The Andalusian Council has (…)

• Moroccan Man in France Sentenced for Sharing ISIS Propaganda on Facebook
  19 June 2023, by Said

  A Moroccan residing in Cazoul-les-Béziers was sentenced, in immediate appearance, to a 2-year prison sentence and a permanent ban from French territory for terrorism apology.
  The investigation, led by the departmental judicial police directorate (DTPJ) of Montpellier, was initiated following an alert received on May 22, 2023. The intelligence services were thus able to identify a number of messages and propaganda videos of the Islamic State, disseminated by the defendant on Facebook (…)

• Spanish Rapper Morad Gets 2-Year Sentence for Police Clash During Video Shoot
  2 March 2024, by Said

  Rapper Morad has been sentenced to two years in prison for a confrontation with the police during the filming of a video clip in 2021 with French rapper Rim’K.
  The events took place on August 11, 2021 in the La Florida neighborhood of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona. The Moroccan-origin rapper was filming a music video without authorization and the filming attracted about 150 people. The noise bothered the neighbors who called the police.
  When the police arrived on the scene, (…)

• Moroccan Celebrities Summoned in ’Hamza Mon BB’ Social Media Scandal
  21 December 2019, by Sylvanus

  The National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) has summoned new suspects accused of being involved in the "Hamza mon bb" case. They are the singer Dounia Batma and the artist Fatima Zahra Laaziri alias Chikha Trax.
  The summons of the singer Dounia Batma follows a complaint filed by the National Center for Human Rights last July with the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Marrakech for defamation and insults on social networks, reports Akhbar Al Yaoum. The target: (…)