The appeal trial of the Franco-Moroccan rapper Maes opens this Thursday in Tangier. Sentenced in the first instance to seven years in prison for kidnapping and sequestration, the artist is contesting charges that weigh heavily on his international career.
France is facing a new wave of violent kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency holders , with three incidents reported in just a few days. This resurgence comes after more than 20 extortion attempts had already been recorded in 2025, some of which were commissioned from Morocco.
A complex kidnapping case , involving a mysterious 80,000 euro debt, luxury cars and a possible link to Morocco, is still awaiting its judicial epilogue in France. More than seven years after the events, the trial of the seven defendants has been postponed to June 2, 2026 by the Reims criminal court.
Badiss Mohamed Amide B., the alleged mastermind of crypto-kidnappings in France, arrested on June 3 in Tangier, is said to be behind the abduction of a close associate of a crypto-millionaire based in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium.
The authors of a new book on Mehdi Ben Barka make rare revelations about the kidnapping and disappearance of the most famous opponent to Kings Mohammed V and Hassan II, in Paris in October 1965.
As he was heading to Morocco to undergo trials, Cheikh Touré, a young Senegalese player, was kidnapped and murdered in Ghana, after falling victim to a fraud network. The Senegalese authorities have opened an investigation to shed light on this murder.
A gang led from Morocco recruits minors to carry out its kidnapping and sequestration operations of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs or their relatives in France.
Journalist Neus Sala recounts the story of Nada Itrab, a 19-year-old Moroccan woman who was rescued in March 2014 by two civil guards in a Bolivian jungle where she had been held captive for seven months.
A cryptocurrency tycoon is struggling to recover from the ultra-violent kidnapping of his wife in broad daylight in Brussels, by a gang specializing in the kidnapping of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, whose alleged mastermind was arrested in Morocco.
A 27-year-old woman and mother of three children has reported being kidnapped and tortured for eight days by members of a criminal network who then abandoned her, unconscious and in critical condition, in a forest near Témara.
The four Moroccan truck drivers, kidnapped in January 2025 in northeastern Burkina Faso near the border with Niger, have been released. This is the result of a joint operation between the National Security Agency (ANSE) of Mali and the Directorate General of Studies and Documentation (DGED) of Morocco.
The Casablanca Court of Appeal has just postponed the examination of Reda Abakrim’s case, alias "Turbo", the main accused in the murder of Reda Faras, the husband of singer Rym Fikri, to September 11 next.