A Moroccan lawyer practising in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain or elsewhere abroad can now open an office in Morocco without giving up their activity outside the Kingdom. The new law on the legal profession explicitly authorizes this dual establishment.
A Moroccan man obtains the annulment of the Dutch justice system’s refusal of his asylum application. Yet the victory has no impact on his future: the court upholds his obligation to leave the Netherlands, as well as a two-year entry ban.
One month after the arrest in Tizi Ouzou of six people presented as members of the MAK, including four Moroccans, the Algerian army is taking a new step: it is broadcasting “confessions” attributed to the group and claims that it wanted to disrupt the elections on the instructions of the Kabyle movement.
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.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, a Moroccan woman who lost her Dutch nationality will be able to return to the country. The courts rejected a condition added by the administration and ordered the immediate issuance of her long-stay visa.
Turning to the French courts first is not always enough to block a divorce subsequently pronounced in Morocco. The Court of Cassation has just reiterated the specific rules applicable to Moroccan couples living in France .
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.
Not having a Moroccan passport or Moroccan national identity card does not automatically exclude a diaspora child from the currency exchange facilities granted for studies abroad. Foreign persons born to a Moroccan father or mother are expressly eligible.
Long convinced they could live or run their networks from Morocco, French drug traffickers are seeing their room for maneuver shrink . The political and judicial rapprochement between Rabat and Paris has profoundly changed the situation.
Eligible thanks to his mother’s origins, Feyenoord striker Shaqueel Van Persie finds himself at the center of a sporting battle. The Moroccan recruitment team wants to attract him to strengthen their attacking sector, continuing their strategy focused on dual nationals.
Belgium’s Justice Minister is making an official visit to Morocco this Thursday. The main objective is to accelerate the transfer of Moroccan prisoners to their country of origin to relieve overcrowding in Belgian penitentiary centers.
Former Belgian comedian Moraad El Kasmi, on the run since a 100,000-euro contract was placed on his head, was arrested in Marrakech. He fell alongside other major drug barons from Antwerp.