A man stripped of his French nationality contested that he was still Moroccan. He claimed that he had never requested that nationality, had always lived in France, and possessed no Moroccan identity documents. The Council of State has now ruled.
A man born in France to Moroccan parents has lost his French nationality. Now settled in Morocco with his wife and two daughters, he will henceforth need to obtain a visa to visit his relatives who remain in France.
Prosecuted for threatening lawyer Thibault de Montbrial with death , Charaf-Din Aberouz is being tried in Paris. Stripped of his nationality, the defendant will be absent from the hearing, stuck in Morocco.
Moroccans, Algerians, and Tunisians are the foreign-origin individuals most affected by the revocation of French nationality.
The French authorities have stripped of his nationality the Franco-Moroccan Karim Kinali, according to a decree published this week in the Official Journal.
In Belgium, around fifty fighters who went to Syria or Afghanistan and were also convicted of terrorism - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - have, to date, been deprived of their Belgian nationality.
Convicted by default in Belgium for terrorism, thirteen fighters - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - who went to Syria or Afghanistan, have been stripped of their Belgian nationality by the Brussels Court of Appeal.
The Belgo-Moroccan jihadist Gelel Attar has displayed, through his lawyer, his opposition to the deprivation of his Belgian nationality before the Brussels criminal court. This deprivation had been pronounced last July after his conviction in the "Zerkani" case for acts of terrorism, his alleged involvement in the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris.
A prison guard was attacked with scissors in the prison of Ghent on Tuesday by Hassan Hamdaoui, nicknamed "the terror of the Place Saint-Jean". The man of Moroccan origin would have committed this act of despair out of fear of being deprived of Belgian nationality like his young brother.
Two Moroccans have been stripped of Belgian nationality by the Brussels Court of Appeal for traveling to Syria. They were sentenced to prison terms and fines.
The former director of the Urban Agency of Marrakech risks losing French nationality. The man is serving a 10-year prison sentence for a corruption case.
Eight people, including Moroccans, convicted of terrorism, have been stripped of their Belgian nationality in their absence. The justice system accuses them of "having seriously failed in their obligations as Belgian citizens".