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• Moroccan Singer Wins Decade-Long Plagiarism Case Against The Chemical Brothers
  23 September 2023, by Sylvanus

  The International Court of The Hague ruled in favor of Moroccan singer Najat Aatabou who had filed a plagiarism complaint against the famous British group The Chemical Brothers.
  This is the end of a trial that lasted 10 years. For the International Court of The Hague, the famous British group The Chemical Brothers had indeed used without consent a sample of the song "Hadi Kedba Bayna" (it’s an obvious lie) by Moroccan artist Najat Aatabou in its hit "Galvanize" in 2005. Plagiarism (…)

• Belgian Man Gets 8-Year Sentence in Morocco for Alleged Family Sexual Abuse
  9 September 2022, by Ginette

  A Belgian national was sentenced on Thursday to eight years in prison by the Meknes Court of Appeal for sexual abuse within the family. The accusations were brought against him by his ex-wife, of Moroccan origin.
  Since his arrest, Marc Moerman has always denied the facts, stressing that he has been the victim of a trap set up from scratch by his in-laws who are pursuing purely financial objectives. On April 14, the 58-year-old father had been sentenced in the first instance by the Meknes (…)

• Moroccan Bank Manager Sentenced to 3 Years for $1 Million Client Theft
  18 January 2019, by Said

  He probably didn’t have time to enjoy the stolen money. The bank manager who helped himself to the accounts of his clients, stealing more than 10 million dirhams, has been sentenced by the courts.
  The thief has just been sentenced to 3 years in prison by the Court of Appeal in Fez, reports the website Barlamane, which recalls that this branch manager, originally from the city of Ahfir, was the subject of a wanted notice issued by the police.
  But it took several months for the general (…)

• Moroccan Man Faces Trial for Brutal 2014 Murder of Wife in France
  14 January 2019, by Said

  The trial of Abdennbi Choua, accused of savagely killing his wife in September 2014, has opened today at the Hérault Assize Court.
  Incarcerated since that date, the 50-year-old man claims his innocence and says that on that day, he had taken his children to school before going to his workplace, reports France Bleu. Around 12:30 p.m., he received a call from the teacher telling him that his wife had not come to pick up the children from school.
  He claims to have gone home before (…)

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  23 February 2019, by Amine
• Belgian Mother Sentenced for Stabbing Daughter Over Secret Islamic Marriage
  30 January 2019, by Said

  A 3-year prison sentence was handed down by a Belgian court against a woman who stabbed her daughter following her conversion to Islam and for having married "in secret".
  At 54 years old, Behiye was prosecuted for "intentional assault and battery", reports the newspaper La Dernière Heure. For the Brussels Correctional Court, which handled this case, this 3-year suspended prison sentence must make the mother understand that "her behavior is unacceptable".
  The facts date back to March 13, (…)

• Moroccan Railway Ordered to Pay $2,000 for Chronic Train Delays
  8 February 2019, by Bladi.net

  A trainee lawyer won his case against the National Railway Office (ONCF) last month, receiving the sum of 20,000 dirhams. Reason for the accusation? the multiple delays of the trains!
  A trainee lawyer practicing in Casablanca, he is enrolled in a doctorate in law and development at the Faculty of Legal Sciences in Meknes, reports the Hespress website. The latter details in the conviction of which Telquel claims to have a copy that he was penalized several times in his work due to the (…)

• Moroccan Journalist’s Sexual Assault Trial Delayed Again, Sparking Controversy
  30 March 2021, by Jean Claude

  The trial relating to the "sexual assault" involving the journalist Soulaimane Raissouni opened on Tuesday. For the third time, the Court of Appeal of Casablanca postponed it to the hearing of April 15, said Me Mohamed Sadqo, the lawyer for the defense, to AFP.
  Soulaimane Raissouni, editor-in-chief of the independent daily Akhbar al-Yaoum (now defunct) is on trial for "indecent assault with violence" and "sequestration". He is being prosecuted on referral from the justice system by an (…)

• Moroccan Man Gets 8.5 Years for Brutal Knife Attack on Wife and Sister-in-Law in Switzerland
  27 July 2019, by Sylvanus

  A reduced sentence for the Moroccan in his thirties. In an initial verdict handed down by the Criminal Court of the Littoral and Val-de-Travers in September 2018, he had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder. Indeed, he had inflicted 19 knife blows on his wife and five on his sister-in-law, in June 2017. But, following the appeal of the public prosecutor’s office and the defense, his sentence was reduced on appeal to 8 and a half years, reports arcinfo.ch.
  This verdict, (…)

• Man Sentenced to 2 Years for Racist Attack on Muslim Woman on Train
  18 February 2019, by Amine

  Sean Devlin was found guilty of verbally and physically assaulting Malika Touirtou, a 63-year-old Moroccan-American woman, on a train, before shouting that she had a bomb in her bag. He allegedly beat her up. A judge has just sentenced him, among other things, to 2 years in prison.
  It all started when Sean Devlin, 36, heard Malika Touirtou speaking Arabic on the phone to her brother. It was during Ramadan and she was returning from the tarawih prayer. He would then have accosted her and (…)