The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) is warning about the over-exposure of the French to cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. This pollutant contaminates food through agricultural soils, massively treated with phosphate fertilizers mainly imported from Morocco .
Rapper Gims was taken into custody this Wednesday in France for money laundering as part of an organized crime group. This arrest, linked to real estate investments abroad, raises questions about his recent mega-projects developed in Marrakech.
Faced with the relocation of their production to Morocco , the 131 employees of the French Lisi automotive plant are on strike. As the final closure approaches, these workers denounce the dismissal compensation deemed derisory.
Fourteen individuals are appearing in Paris for having orchestrated a vast cannabis trafficking between Morocco, Spain and France . The authorities seized a ton of drugs and uncovered a sophisticated money laundering network.
On Tuesday, the justice system requested eighteen years of criminal detention against the Swiss preacher Tariq Ramadan, who was tried in absentia. The public prosecutor also requested an arrest warrant and a permanent ban from French territory.
Defeated in the municipal elections against Emmanuel Grégoire, Rachida Dati sees her future as uncertain. The former minister could bounce back at the helm of the prestigious domain of the Château de Versailles, thanks to an institutional reshuffle.
Moroccan-born chef Nawal Rezagui has just won her first Michelin star in the 2026 Guide. At the helm of the restaurant l’Alcôve, she celebrates an exceptional achievement rewarding an atypical career with Mediterranean flavors.
Faced with the scourge of sports piracy, France is preparing a new digital weapon. An automatic IP address blocking system will be deployed, with the aim of being fully operational for the next World Cup.
Four offenders, of Moroccan and Algerian origin, were sentenced to up to four years in prison in Paris for the theft of a watch estimated at one million dollars . This loot was snatched from an American tourist on New Year’s Eve.
Severely burned during a cryotherapy session in 2019, former Miss Morocco Ilham Khallad is relaunching her legal battle. The young woman is calling for witnesses to have her physiotherapist’s responsibility recognized.
The Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is appearing before the French justice system again for rape allegations dating back to 2018 . On the eve of the hearings, his defense is denouncing a massive attempt at extortion to have the complaint withdrawn.
Thirteen days after his spectacular escape from the Villepinte prison , the detainee of Moroccan origin Ilyas Kherbouch was arrested. The young man had made his getaway thanks to the intervention of accomplices disguised as police officers.