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• Macron Aides Face Legal Scrutiny in Expanding Benalla Scandal
  23 March 2019, by Amine

  Three new cases have just been referred to the courts in the case concerning Alexandre Benalla and Vincent Crase. These are three senior officials of the Elysée, close to Emmanuel Macron.
  The Senate has just this Thursday referred three new cases to the courts in the Benalla affair. New legal proceedings concerning three close associates of French President Emmanuel Macron: Secretary General Alexis Kohler, Emmanuel Macron’s right-hand man, Chief of Staff Patrick Strzoda and General Lionel (…)

• Moroccan Man Hailed as Hero for Rescue, Faces Drug Trafficking Charges
  24 March 2019, by Amine

  On March 17, a Moroccan came to the rescue of an elderly woman who had fallen into the water, saving her from drowning, in Marbella. He was the hero of the day until it was discovered that he had just been released on bail and is being prosecuted in a case of hard drug trafficking. What to think of it?
  "A man released on bail saves a woman from drowning in Puerto Banús," headlines the website Diariosur. And indeed, El Hossain El Haddad was working for the head of a gang (unbeknownst to (…)

• Train Driver in Deadly Moroccan Derailment Released After Serving Sentence
  27 March 2019, by Amine

  While the train driver linked to the Bouknadel tragedy will be released today, his family says they are relieved, but the driver’s lawyer declares that he wants to appeal to prove his client’s innocence.
  He will have been sentenced to serve a sentence of 5 months and 5 days for involuntary manslaughter and injury, for having caused the derailment of a train, between Kenitra and Bouknadel, killing 7 and injuring more than 120 passengers. This sentence will be fully served today. And this (…)

• Paris Attacks: ’Daesh Landlord’ Sentenced to 4 Years for Harboring Jihadists
  29 March 2019, by Amine

  The lodger of Daesh, Jawad Bendaoud, has just been sentenced to 4 years in prison for having housed two jihadists from the November 2015 attacks in France.
  Last Wednesday, Jawad Bendaoud had been sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill one of the victims of the Bataclan, this within the precincts of the courthouse. This Friday, he has just been sentenced to four more years in prison.
  Jawad Bendaoud was prosecuted for "receiving terrorist criminals" and had, in the first (…)

• Trial Begins for Casablanca Faith Healer Accused of Raping Client During Exorcism
  3 April 2019, by Amine

  The trial of the raqi named Mossab, charged with a rape he allegedly committed during a Roqya Charîya session, begins this Wednesday in Casablanca. And no, this is not the raqi from Berkane. This one bewitches with incantations, which will moreover be mentioned in court...
  According to Alyaoum24 which relays this information: "The details of this case date back to last year when a young woman in her thirties filed a complaint against the raqi, Mossab, accusing him of raping her during the (…)

• Morocco Sentences Dog Meat Gang to 10 Years in Prison for Illegal Slaughter and Sale
  4 April 2019, by Kamal

  The Attorney General at the Casablanca Court of Appeal has confirmed the 10-year prison sentence handed down at first instance against members of a gang guilty of clandestine slaughter, dog slaughter, distribution and sale of their meat.
  The public prosecutor’s office stated that the gang, which consists of 7 people aged 30 to 50 and from the cities of Mohammedia, El Jadida and Khouribga, acted without any pity or morality, by hunting dogs, fattening them, slaughtering them before serving (…)

• Former Moroccan News Director Faces Multiple Lawsuits from PJD Ministers
  5 April 2019, by Amine

  Judicial proceedings against journalists are far from rare as they should be. Mohamed Khabbachi, current director of the news site Barlamane.com, would have several lawsuits on his back, from three PJD ministers.
  According to the Jeune Afrique website, the former director of MAP (the official press agency of Morocco) and current director of Barlamane.com would be "in the sights of the Islamists of the PJD". We don’t know yet on what basis Jeune Afrique is basing this.
  In any case, this (…)

• Moroccan Court Upholds 20-Year Sentence for Protest Leader Nasser Zefzafi
  6 April 2019, by Kamal

  The verdict fell like a guillotine for Nasser Zefzafi and his co-detainees, as the 20-year prison sentence was upheld on appeal this Friday, April 6.
  The Casablanca Court of Appeal upheld the 20-year prison sentence handed down on June 28, 2018 by the criminal chamber of the Casablanca Court of Appeal against Zefzafi and three other leaders, prosecuted for "conspiracy to undermine the security of the State".
  Arrested on May 26, 2017, Nasser Zefzafi and 3 other leaders of the Al Hoceima (…)

• Police Officer in Morocco Gets 30-Year Sentence for Killing Superior After Argument
  9 April 2019, by Said

  A sentence of 30 years in prison has just been handed down by the criminal chamber of the court of first instance in Meknes against a police officer accused of killing his superior.
  Prosecuted for premeditated manslaughter, gunshot wounds and injuries, the police officer with the rank of chief brigadier had argued with his boss last August in Ifrane.
  "The police brigadier, who serves within the urban corps of the city of Ifrane, had argued with his superior, a police lieutenant, in the (…)

• Moroccan Woman Sentenced to 5 Years for Drugging, Raping, and Blackmailing Man
  10 April 2019, by Amine

  It is a 5-year prison sentence that a woman convicted of raping a man and filming her rare violent pornographic acts will have to serve. Another victim did not want to file a complaint.
  This woman would have drugged a man, raped him and filmed him in order to blackmail him, according to Assabah. The daily specifies that she was sentenced by the Court of Appeal of Rabat to 5 years in prison.
  Strangely, the rapist is the wife of the victim’s nephew. She would have put a drug in a soft (…)