Following the decision of the Spanish justice to remove the custody of the children from a Moroccan family established in the north of the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has commented on this decision and provided some details.
Jamal Oucham, a driver at "Bus et Co" for two years, saved the 37 students from the Pius X school in Antwerp from the fire that broke out on his bus at the border between Bornem and Puurs (Puurs-Saint-Amands) last week. The students expressed their gratitude to him on Wednesday.
Mohamed, a 12-year-old boy of Moroccan origin, was electrocuted on Monday during the festivities of Saint-John in El Albujón (Cartagena). He was admitted to intensive care in a hospital in Murcia.
More than half (53%) of Moroccans are in favor of "corporal punishment" on children to discipline them and make them more obedient. This is revealed by a recent study conducted by the "Afrobarometer" network.
The Spanish police arrested a Moroccan woman for abandoning her minor son in Zaragoza. She is accused of trying to flee to Morocco by leaving her son at the airport.
Arrested in 2012 in Martil for the murder of her husband, whose body she had thrown into a well adjoining their home, a woman is accused of having also murdered their son during the same period. Bones of the boy were recently found by investigators.
The Union of Mosques of France (UMF) expressed its compassion on Friday to the families whose young children were victims the day before of a knife attack in Annecy, denouncing the many "political" and "unhealthy" recoveries that point the finger at Islam and immigration.
Morocco and Spain are studying the ways and means to ensure the repatriation, with "all legal guarantees", of the some 137 unaccompanied Moroccan minors still staying in the reception centers of Ceuta.
It has already been seven months since the parents of Imane Saadaoui , the young Moroccan woman killed by her husband in Valencia, have been waiting to obtain custody of their grandson, placed in a minor center after the death of his mother in November.
The family of Fatima Zahra, a 15-year-old Moroccan teenager from Tata and victim of a gang rape, denounces the insignificant one-year prison sentences handed down against the perpetrators.
Houari Saraoui, a resident of Champs-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), has found his daughter in Morocco, after a year of solo searches. His ex-wife had fled abroad with the little girl when he regained custody due to suspicions of abuse.
Sexual violence against minors and women is reaching alarming proportions in Morocco, warns the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), which calls for an urgent reform of the Penal Code.