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• Morocco Gang Rape Trial Delayed: 12 Men Accused in Khadija Case Face June Hearing
  21 May 2019, by Bladi.net

  While it opened this Tuesday, May 21, 2019, the trial of the 12 men accused of kidnapping and gang rape against the teenager Khadija has been postponed again. At the Beni Mellal court, the defense lawyers and the victim’s lawyer have requested more time to prepare. The next hearing is scheduled for June 25.
  Eagerly awaited by all, this trial which opened at the Beni Mellal court (central Morocco) on Tuesday has been postponed to June 25. According to Me Ibrahim Hachane, the counsel for (…)

• Moroccan Immigrant on Trial for Deadly Knife Attack in Belgian Café
  28 November 2023, by Sylvanus

  Accused in court of two murders and five attempted murders, Omar Benchamsy is currently on trial in Belgium. The statements of the man of Moroccan origin are surprising.
  The assize trial of Omar Benchamsy continues in Eupen. This resident of Baelen, born in Morocco in 1969 and arrived in Belgium in 2005, is accused of the murders of Ralph (54) and Vincent (47) and five attempted murders. The events took place during the night of October 14 to 15, 2021, in the "A Ge Pömpke" café, located (…)

• Singer Faudel Faces Child Support Case in Moroccan Court
  8 February, by Said

  The raï singer Faudel appeared this Friday, February 7, before the court of first instance of Marrakech for a case of family neglect. The hearing was postponed to March 7.
  Faudel is accused by his Franco-Algerian ex-wife of not paying the child support for their children. The French justice system has already sentenced the singer to pay arrears, but the decision has not been enforced in Morocco. Faudel’s ex-wife has therefore initiated proceedings before the Marrakech court, where the (…)

• Convicted Rapist Flees to Morocco After 12-Year Sentence in French Trial
  20 December 2024, by Said

  Hassan Oamou, one of the 51 defendants in the trial of the Mazan rapes, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the criminal court of Vaucluse, which handed down its verdict on Thursday, December 19 in the Mazan rape case.
  Dominique Pelicot, a central figure in this extraordinary trial, received the maximum sentence: 20 years in prison. But among the 51 defendants, one man is missing: Hassan Oamou. Tried in absentia, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for aggravated rape.
  Around 30 (…)

• Major Drug Trafficking Ring Busted: 120 Convicted in Brussels Trial
  30 October 2024, by Prince

  End in Brussels of the exceptional trial of 120 people prosecuted for international cocaine and cannabis trafficking, among other things, from Morocco. The accused were sentenced to sentences ranging from a few months to 17 years in prison.
  After a long trial that took place from December 2023 to May 2024, the Brussels court finally delivered its verdict on Tuesday in this case of international drug trafficking from Morocco for which more than 120 men and women of Albanian, Colombian, (…)

• Moroccan-Canadian Woman on Trial for Assaulting Local Official in Property Dispute
  28 March, by Sylvanus

  During a brief hearing, the lawyer of the Moroccan living in Canada tried before the court of first instance of Témara for having slapped a caïd tried to justify the act and to get his client out of trouble.
  "My client is a woman who has been a victim of violence," stressed the lawyer of the MRE, Bouchaïb Essoufi, in a brief pleading on Wednesday. He accused the public authorities of "having acted according to negative behaviors". He assured that his client "was assaulted, which led to a (…)

• Moroccan Activist Jailed for Calling Government Officials ’Terrorists’ on Facebook
  5 January 2019, by Said

  Back to square one for the former leader of the February 20 movement Oussama El Khlifi who has just been placed in detention at the El Arjat prison in Salé.
  The decision was made on Friday by the court of first instance of Salé following El Khlifi’s remarks on Facebook in which he had described the PJD deputies and the Head of Government Saâdeddine El Othmani as "terrorists", going so far as to talk about "beheading".
  This is not the first time the young man has been incarcerated. He (…)

• Marrakech Café Shooting Trial Delayed to February, 16 Defendants Await Proceedings
  8 January 2019, by Said

  New developments in the case of the shooting at Café la Crème in Marrakech. The Court of Appeal has just postponed the examination of the case of the persons prosecuted for "premeditated murder with a firearm" to February 5.
  The postponement is to allow "the defense to prepare its pleadings following the decision of the court to insert a new file in the main case in which three other defendants are being prosecuted," reports the MAP.
  In total, 16 people are being prosecuted in this (…)

• Spanish Court Upholds Prison Sentence for Racist Attack on Moroccan Man
  15 January 2019, by Said

  The Spanish Supreme Court has just confirmed the sentence of two years and one month in prison against a man accused of hitting a Moroccan and insulting him "Arab shit".
  The events took place in October 2011 in the town of Reus, in northeastern Spain. After punching a Moroccan in the stomach while shouting "Arab shit", a man assaults a little further on another man dressed in a djellaba who was heading towards the mosque.
  A week later, he shouted the same racist insults at women of (…)

• Former World Boxing Champ Sentenced in Morocco for Premarital Sex
  21 January 2019, by Said

  The former world boxing champion was sentenced last week to a one-month prison sentence under Article 490 of the Penal Code, which states that "persons of different sexes who, not being united by the bonds of marriage, have sexual relations between them are punished with imprisonment of one month to one year."
  This conviction follows, according to the newspaper Al Massae, a complaint from a woman with whom he would have had sexual relations after a promise of marriage. The latter would (…)