Seven years in prison. This is the sentence handed down by the Rabat Court of Appeal against each of the three members of a criminal network specializing in the robbery of money transfer agencies in several cities of the kingdom.
Tried for human exploitation, fraud and money laundering in the agricultural sector, the masterminds of a network that mainly recruited illegal labor from Morocco for service companies in agriculture in various regions of France were sentenced to one year in prison.
The land border post of Zouj Bghal between Morocco and Algeria has been exceptionally opened, in order to allow the repatriation of several young Moroccans who were candidates for irregular migration and were detained in Algerian prisons.
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rabat has sentenced a young man accused of murdering his partner in Salé to ten years in prison.
Several individuals accused in a drug trafficking case allegedly directed from Morocco have been sentenced to up to two years in prison in France.
The Court of Appeal of Fez has confirmed the conviction of three people to a one-year prison sentence, including a parking attendant.
Sentenced in the first instance to six months’ suspended imprisonment, a 6,000 euro fine and two years of ineligibility for fraud, Yazid Ichemrahen, 2014 world champion in frozen desserts, has waived his appeal trial.
Aïcha Sraidi, a controversial figure on the Moroccan web, better known by her pseudonym "Houyam Star", has been sentenced to four years in prison by the criminal court of first instance in Aïn Sebaâ. Her husband, Mohammed El Kahlaoui, has also been sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 500 dirhams.
Fallen into disgrace, France has called on Morocco to help free President Mohamed Bazoum, detained in Niamey since his overthrow in July 2023.
The director of a bank branch was arrested by the judicial police elements of Rabat and then placed in pre-trial detention in the Al Arajat 2 prison after two years on the run. He is accused of having falsified a customer’s power of attorney to withdraw checkbooks, with the complicity of a network of banking document trafficking.
While serving the last months of a 15-year sentence handed down in Essonne at the Poissy prison, an inmate uses subterfuges to escape during an appointment at the Moroccan consulate in Pontoise. He is the subject of an investigation for organized prison escape, entrusted to the Brigade for the Repression of Banditry in Versailles.
In Guelmim, a single mother sentenced at first instance to ten years in prison for having let her daughter die has just benefited from a reduced sentence.