The young man in his twenties admitted to the facts and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Rabat Court of Appeal. He had slit his language teacher’s throat on the grounds that he had been sexually assaulted by him.
While maintaining that it was the Jew Arié Engelberg who had assaulted him and that he had simply defended himself, a 16-year-old Moroccan teenager was sentenced to prison and risks being deported to Morocco.
Seized by a young mother seeking compensation for her son born of rape, the Moroccan Court of Cassation has rendered a landmark decision.
Following the suicide of Yanis, 17, on March 30, after the release of his attacker, the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children (Ciivise) has called for changes to the law and strengthened support for victims.
Nora, a 30-year-old Brussels woman, recounts having endured sexual and psychological violence for five years in an arranged marriage with her distant cousin.
Slapped in the exercise of his duties by a Moroccan residing in Canada, the caid of the 7th administrative annex of Temara has been transferred to an internal service of the Ministry of Interior.
In Morocco, the National Federation of Education (FNE, affiliated with the Moroccan Labor Union) calls for strong and immediate mobilization after the violent assault of a teacher by a student that led to her death.
In Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), a young heavily intoxicated Moroccan woman and a man were arrested, placed in custody, then in detention after a violent confrontation with police officers during a nighttime intervention in a building. Their trial is expected to open before the Montauban criminal court this Tuesday.
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.
Police arrested an Algerian illegal immigrant who threatened to kill the Moroccan vice-consul in Marseille and bit a security guard.
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.
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.