Violence against women and girls is on the rise in northern Morocco. About 9 out of 10 girls and women in the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima region have been victims of some form of violence at least once in their lifetime.
A passenger on a bus serving line 38R3 was assaulted and robbed of her mobile phone and wallet last Thursday around 5 a.m. on Boulevard Al Aakid Al Allam in Casablanca. Fortunately, the aggressor was intercepted by 3 inspectors who were able to subdue him, before alerting the police.
A Moroccan has indeed been the victim of inhuman and degrading treatment in a migrant detention center in South Korea. The country’s Ministry of Justice confirmed the facts on Monday.
In Antwerp, an elderly woman accused of being "racist" was thrown off a bus following a dispute with Moroccans. Injured, she was taken to the hospital. The police are investigating the incident.
On October 15, the residents of Zelik in Brussels were shocked by the horrific murder of Rachida, a 52-year-old woman of Moroccan origin who was about to leave her husband, Ali, 68, a violent man who beat her constantly. Rachida is the 17th woman to fall victim to a man’s murderous madness who knows only the language of violence.
In September 2019, Abdelkader Baoujaja was accused of the murder of his partner Leïla Zahiri in Molenbeek Saint-Jean. Before the Brussels Assize Court on Monday, the sole suspect is described by his ex-wife as a calm and introverted person.
Three young people of Moroccan origin (two aged 19 and one aged 20) violently attacked two Moroccan gay couples in Malaga in August and September last. They were remanded in custody as alleged perpetrators of hate crimes.
A 41-year-old Moroccan was sentenced this week to four years in prison with a committal order by the Béziers criminal court. He had injured an octogenarian by snatching her necklace on October 17 in the city center of the sub-prefecture of Hérault.
Faced with the multiplication of physical assaults on medical personnel, the Regional Directorate of Health and Social Protection of Dakhla-Oued Eddahab has expressed its bitterness and stresses that it has taken measures to prosecute the perpetrators of these ignoble acts.
Adil, a 20-year-old man, was beaten by 15 individuals and left for dead near the Quaregnon slag heap (Belgium). His attackers burned the van he was driving to erase the traces. The victim and his mother are still in shock.
Loubna Benaïssa, a 9-year-old Moroccan girl who disappeared on August 5, 1992 in Ixelles, Belgium, was found dead four years later. She was buried in Tangier.
The Quimper court on Friday, October 15 sentenced Abel*, a young Moroccan and his Quimper friend, both 18 years old, to 18 and 8 months in prison with probation for assaulting and stabbing a young man as they left a nightclub in the city.