After nearly three years of struggle, Omar, a 16-year-old Moroccan with cerebral palsy, and his mother Mbarka, have obtained a one-year residence permit in Spain. The child, who has sudden death risk factors, will be able to benefit from continuous health care.
A 9-year-old girl of Moroccan origin died after falling into a pond in the Archivel district of Caravaa de la Cruz (Murcia), where swimming is prohibited.
In Morocco, calls for reform of the Family Code (Moudawana) continue. An association is campaigning for legal custody of children, which currently belongs by right to the father, to also be granted to women in case of divorce.
Two couples of Moroccans residing in Belgium were arrested on Sunday in Ceuta in possession of more than 200 kilos of hashish hidden in their vehicles. They were accompanied by their minor children (four each), aged 1 to 15 years, who were taken care of by the Child Protection Service of the autonomous city.
Sherifa Lalla Nouhaila, daughter of Princess Lalla Asmae, who is the third child of King Hassan II and Lalla Latifa, and the sister of King Mohammed VI, and her husband Ali Hajji, have welcomed their second child, a daughter whose name they reveal.
A 2-year-old child of Moroccan origin died by drowning on Sunday in the pool of a private residence in Dénia, a port city in eastern Spain.
A three-and-a-half-year-old child from Ceuta was urgently transferred to the hospital in M’diq on Saturday after a fall from a third floor. The minor was later evacuated to Ceuta and then to Cadiz.
The Spanish police intercepted at the port of Tarifa (Cadiz) a Moroccan couple who were trying to take their two-year-old daughter to Morocco, claimed by the French child protection service.
A Moroccan man slit his wife’s throat, also of Moroccan origin, on Monday in the Pescadería neighborhood of Almería, in front of their children aged 9 and 8. The minors called on neighbors for help to alert the police.
Mohamed Jratlou, accused of the murder of his son Younès, 4 years old , who went missing and was found dead in the Douve, was sentenced in 2012 by the Mons Assize Court to 9 years in prison.
Nearly 50% of young Moroccans say they are optimistic about the future of their children. This is the result of a survey by the Arab Barometer in 12 countries in North Africa and the Middle East (MENA).
Jalil, 15, was blinded by police in Chilly-Mazarin, Essonne, on the night of July 1 to 2, when acts of vandalism were recorded in reaction to the death of Nahel, the 17-year-old killed during a police check in Nanterre. His family filed a complaint with the IGPN.