A 26-year-old Moroccan man managed to escape while being transferred to a detention center in Germany. Despite a major manhunt involving a helicopter, he traveled nearly 400 kilometers before being found the next day in Cologne. His deportation to Morocco has now been scheduled.
A spectacular escape ended with the arrest of four individuals on Wednesday, April 15. The Civil Guard put an end to a lengthy chase after a heavy truck became definitively stuck on a winding road.
The anti-money laundering chamber in Fès has postponed the trial of drug trafficker Oualid Sekkaki to May 13th. Extradited from Belgium in 2022, he must answer charges of international drug trafficking and money laundering.
On March 20, Ilyas Kherbouch’s flight ended in Canet-en-Roussillon. Escaped from Villepinte prison thirteen days earlier with the help of fake police officers, the fugitive was apprehended with a former prison guard claiming to have been kidnapped.
The Paris Court of Appeal sentenced Ilyas Kherbouch, known as "Ganito", to six years in prison on Thursday. Currently on the run after his spectacular escape from Villepinte last Saturday, the young man is now the subject of an arrest warrant.
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While he was subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), a 24-year-old Moroccan man attempted to escape from the Nîmes police station. Tried summarily in the city’s judicial court on Monday, he tried to justify his act.
The French justice system has sentenced a Moroccan in absentia to a three-year prison term, this Wednesday, September 10, and has issued an arrest warrant against him. This decision comes after an escape that occurred on July 28, 2023.
Arrested in Morocco last February, Alan Gomes, 28, and Albinou Da Sylva, 38, two alleged accomplices of Mohamed Amra, a drug trafficker who escaped in May 2024, were extradited this Wednesday to France, then indicted and incarcerated.
The 43-year-old detainee from the central prison of Poissy (Yvelines), who escaped during an outing to the Moroccan consulate in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) on December 20, was arrested this week in Spain.
The Sekkaki brothers, of Moroccan origin, are involved in several thefts, robberies and escapes in Belgium. And that’s not all. They are now linked to international drug trafficking.
Mohamed J., arrested in Morocco in 2009 and sentenced to ten years in prison after his escape from Bruges prison aboard a helicopter with Ashraf Sekkaki alias "The King of Escape", was sentenced on Friday by the Antwerp Correctional Court to forty months in prison for cocaine trafficking and one year in prison for illegal possession of weapons.