Trial

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• Inmate Dies After Prison Cell Fight Over Plastic Ashtray in Fez, Morocco
  21 February 2021, by Bladi.net

  It all started with a dispute between the two cellmates over this plastic ashtray. The victim, a car park attendant in prison for his involvement in an assault and battery case, lost consciousness after exchanging punches.
  Taken to the prison infirmary before being evacuated to the Hassan II Hospital in Fez, the victim did not survive.

• Moroccan Court Delivers Justice in Landmark Casablanca Real Estate Fraud Case
  12 March 2021, by Bladi.net

  After 12 years of legal proceedings, the Brissot affair, one of the most famous cases of land spoliation in Morocco, came to an end at the beginning of March. The main defendants, namely the villa’s caretaker and the unscrupulous developer as well as their accomplices, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 12 years and a fine of two million DH.

• Spanish-Swiss Suspect in Moroccan Hikers’ Murder Case Faces Trial
  2 February 2019, by Said

  Arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of two Scandinavians last December near Mount Toubkal, the Spanish-Swiss national is expected in court this Monday.
  Cited by AFP, his lawyer indicates that after "the preliminary hearing, there will be a more detailed hearing, which will last a long time, with more detailed questions", adding that other suspects are to appear the same day before the anti-terrorism investigating judge in Salé.
  The Moroccan authorities accuse Kevin (…)

• Moroccan Woman’s Trial for Gruesome UAE Murder-Cannibalism Case Delayed
  7 February 2019, by Amine

  The Moroccan woman who in November 2018 killed and cooked her lover, before offering him to be eaten by Pakistani workers, has just had her trial postponed in the United Arab Emirates.
  At 37 years old, she is said to have stabbed her partner to death, then cut up his body into three pieces before simply cooking him and offering him to be eaten by workers. This act, which she previously described as a "fit of madness," according to the newspaper The National, would have been motivated by (…)

• Trial Date Set for Mosque and Cemetery Treasure Hunters in Essaouira
  26 April 2021, by Sylvanus

  At the last hearing, the court of first instance of Essaouira decided to postpone the trial of the treasure hunters in the mosques and cemeteries to the end of the current month, reports Al Massae. The events had taken place in March. The accused had been arrested in flagrante delicto of excavating a presumed treasure in a mosque in the commune of Marmara, near Essaouira. They were in possession of drilling tools. The police discovered that they had used these tools to dig in a cemetery. (…)

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  21 July 2021, by Ginette
• Moroccan Imam Sentenced to 5 Years for Sexual Abuse of 7 Minors
  14 February 2019, by Said

  The Court of Appeal of Marrakech has just sentenced an imam to imprisonment for sexually abusing several underage girls.
  According to the newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, the religious leader was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexually abusing 7 minors. This sentence is accompanied by fines of 50,000 dirhams for one of the victims and 10,000 dirhams for each of the other victims.
  Last May, a 16-year-old girl ran away from home just after a marriage proposal. She was found a few (…)

• Moroccan Court Clarifies: No Marital Rape Conviction in Tangier Domestic Violence Case
  15 February 2019, by Amine

  While many associations and generally Moroccans had applauded the decision of the Tangier court to sentence the perpetrator of a rape on his wife to two years in prison last December, the said court now denies this information.
  The conviction that the Tangier court has pronounced concerns only the violence of which the wife was a victim. As for the sexual relations that allegedly caused her abnormal vaginal bleeding (for which, among other things, she was hospitalized), they fall, (…)

• Moroccan Man on Trial for Wife’s 2015 Murder in Paris Suburb
  18 February 2019, by Said

  The trial of Brahim J, accused of having killed his wife in 2015 in the Paris region, before throwing her body into a canal, opens this Monday before the Assize Court of Val-d’Oise. The man of Moroccan origin faces life imprisonment.
  Now 37 years old, the man described as jealous and possessive by the investigators quoted by the newspaper Le Parisien, had admitted to having killed his wife, Hafida, after an argument that went wrong. "She annoyed me. So I hit her, and I killed her. I (…)

• Retired Teacher Sentenced to 30 Years for Triple Murder in Azrou, Morocco
  22 October 2021, by Ginette

  The criminal chamber of the Meknes Court of Appeal sentenced a retired teacher to thirty years in prison for killing three members of his in-laws’ family.
  The retired teacher killed three people and injured five others with a firearm on July 22, 2018, in the rural commune of Tigrigra, located five kilometers from the city of Azrou. He was in a state of intoxication when he committed this murderous madness.
  The defendant is said to have had a dispute with members of his in-laws’ family. (…)