The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) confirmed, on Thursday, the deprivation of nationality of 4 Franco-Moroccans and a Franco-Turk. Seized by the defendants, the ECHR considered that France did not violate their fundamental rights.
Fouad Akrich, a 27-year-old Moroccan jihadist, was arrested with his wife and children in Turkey. The arrest of this young man, who is one of the six Moroccan fighters stripped of their Belgian nationality for terrorism, is widely reported in the Belgian press.
Six Belgo-Moroccan fighters, who went to Syria, have lost their Belgian nationality. This decision follows legal proceedings initiated against them.
While Morocco and Algeria are more conciliatory on the subject, Tunisia, on the other hand, seems more radical. Many of these dual nationals from Maghreb countries have lost their French nationality due to terrorism-related affairs.
Fayçal Aït Messoud, 23, lost his French nationality due to his attempt to join Syria a few days after the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Hypercacher in Paris. This is the decision of the French Government.
The Moroccan Consulate in Utrecht was visited by pro-Zefzafi residents in the Netherlands. They vandalized national symbols and demanded to be stripped of their Moroccan nationality just like their leader, Nasser Zefzafi, and the six other detainees of the Hirak of the Rif.
Nasser Zefzafi, leader of the "Hirak" protest movement, and five other detained activists have requested to be deprived of their Moroccan nationality. It was his father who made this known on social media.