Sentenced to one year in prison in the "Hamza Mon Bb" case, Moroccan artist Dounia Batma should regain her freedom in January 2025, after her request for royal pardon does not seem to have been successful.
Prosecuted in detention after accusing judicial officials in a video of facilitating the "illegal appropriation of land belonging to her father," the retired judge Malika El Amri was sentenced by the Ain Sebaa First Instance Correctional Court.
Back from Morocco, the driver of a stolen vehicle involved in a fatal accident on August 13 in Moselle has been detained. His co-author was placed under judicial supervision.
The land border post of Zouj Bghal between Morocco and Algeria was exceptionally opened to allow the repatriation of several Moroccans who were detained in Algerian prisons.
Tried in particular for the offenses of undeclared work, employment of foreign workers without a work permit, assistance with irregular stay and subjection of persons to unworthy working conditions, a Moroccan couple residing in Grabels, on the northern outskirts of Montpellier, was sentenced to prison and a fine.
Placed in pre-trial detention in prison, the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco has failed in his attempt to be released. This right was denied to him by the Court of Appeal of Tétouan.
Prosecuted in custody for attempted rape on a Moroccan residing abroad (MRE), a raqi (spiritual healer) from Imouzzer Kandar, in the Fès-Meknès region, was sentenced to a prison term.
Found guilty by the judges of the Versailles Court of Appeal in a racketeering case, the former mayor of Mantes-La-Jolie, Sidi El Haimer, a leading figure of the Polisario in the Paris region, sentenced in January 2023 to a suspended one-year prison sentence, sees his sentence increased.
After a quarter of a century on the run, the oldest drug baron wanted in northern Morocco has been placed in pre-trial detention in prison. He will be retried for a criminal case in which he was convicted in absentia to 10 years in prison.
In Belgium, the son of a Moroccan woman was sentenced to six years in prison for the attempted murder of his romantic rival and one year in prison for possession of cannabis. Dissatisfied, he pleads for a suspended sentence.
In Morocco, the establishment of alternative sentences instead of pre-trial detention is now a reality. Published in the latest Official Journal (No. 7328), dated August 22, 2024, Law No. 43.22 on alternative sentences has officially come into force.
Tried before the criminal chamber of the court of first instance in Rabat, a YouTuber, who worked for foreigners from a Gulf country and exploited a minor under 12 years old on Tik Tok, Youtube and Skype, the child’s mother and their accomplice were sentenced to prison terms.