Violence and assaults

Articles

• Viral Videos Spur Rapid Police Response to Rising Crime in Morocco
  14 April, by Sylvanus

  Theft, assaults against people and public property with bladed weapons, and other forms of crime have become commonplace in several Moroccan cities. Thanks to the dissemination of numerous videos on social networks, law enforcement has managed to arrest suspects very quickly.
  The resurgence of these criminal behaviors in the streets requires strengthening security interventions to limit the presence of people who sow disorder in neighborhoods, an active activist in the city of Casablanca (…)

• 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 Woman Sues French State Over Denied Access to Ex-Partner’s Trial
  10 April, by Prince

  Deprived of her right to attend the trial of her former partner, a victim of domestic violence has sued the State for administrative dysfunction before the Paris judicial court.
  The woman asked the Paris judicial court on Wednesday to condemn the State for depriving her of attending this trial. Khadija believes that her "trial was stolen" from her. "When I filed a complaint, I had faith in justice. I wanted to see him in the dock, I wanted to hear the word ’convicted’. But they stole my (…)

• Teen Dies After Stabbing in Chambéry Street Brawl, Suspects at Large
  8 April, by Sylvanus

  Found unconscious with a stab wound in the back on Sunday evening in Chambéry (Savoie), an 18-year-old Moroccan died shortly after being admitted to the hospital. This death occurred following a brawl, according to the municipality.
  According to the police, the young Moroccan was in an irregular situation on French territory, reports Europe1. He was found unconscious around 9 p.m. with a stab wound in the back and died shortly after arriving at the hospital, the same source specifies, (…)

• 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 (…)

• French Rugby Star Chalureau Faces Appeal in Racial Violence Case
  15 November 2023, by Sylvanus

  The French rugby international, Bastien Chalureau, 31, appears before the Toulouse Court of Appeal for acts of violence committed on the grounds of race or ethnicity. The correctional appeals chamber of the Toulouse court will hand down its decision on Tuesday, January 16.
  The facts date back to the end of January 2020. Bastien Chalureau was returning from a drunken evening. He crosses the path of a 39-year-old (at the time of the facts) father on the Jean-Jaurès alleys in Toulouse and (…)

• Moroccan Journalist Exposes Child Abuse Crisis in New Book on Vulnerable Youth
  10 October 2020, by Ginette

  Journalist and writer Hicham Houdaifa has become the voice of the suffering of abused children in his latest book titled "Childhood in Morocco: Precariousness in Multiple Forms". In this book, he advocates for the issue of protecting and respecting children’s rights to be a national emergency.
  Hicham Houdaïfa states that after working on the situation of impoverished women in his book "The Back of a Woman, the Back of a Mule, the Forgotten Ones of the Deep Morocco, En Toutes Lettres, (…)

• Fugitive Convicted in Morocco After Faking Death to Evade French Murder Charge
  17 March, by Prince

  Wanted for the murder of Mehdi Ettir, a 23-year-old man killed in 2011 in Paris, Hassan Benhamza, 22, pretended to be dead to escape justice, with the complicity of his family. Twelve years later, in 2023, he will finally be arrested and then convicted in Morocco. He has appealed. The victim’s family is demanding justice.
  Mehdi Ettir, a seasonal construction worker, was killed in broad daylight in Paris on March 27, 2011 by one of his friends named Hassan Benhamza. A dark day for Inès, (…)

• Protests Erupt Across France After Teen’s Death in Police Shooting
  29 June 2023, by Prince

  The death of Nahel M., a 17-year-old young man, killed on Tuesday by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre, sparked a wave of anger and tension in several neighborhoods of the city and even beyond. To date, some 150 people have already been arrested, according to Gérard Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior.
  Burning trash cans, fireworks, burning cars, clashes with law enforcement... Urban violence has been recorded since the announcement of Nahel’s death. The tensions, (…)

• Three Arrested in Spain for Violent Knife Attack on Moroccan Man
  18 January 2023, by Prince

  The Civil Guard has arrested three people aged 28 to 40 in Puente Genil (Córdoba) as alleged perpetrators of the knife attack on a 20-year-old Moroccan, which occurred on January 5.
  The three suspects, with lengthy criminal records, are accused of a crime of serious injury for violently assaulting the victim, stabbing him several times with a knife.
  The victim, seriously injured, managed to escape them and was then taken, in critical condition, to the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba (…)