The family of Franco-Moroccan Ismail Snabi, one of the survivors of the Saïdia tragedy, arrested and then sentenced in Algeria to one year and three months in prison for illegal entry into the territory and vehicle smuggling, while he had strayed on his jet ski in Algerian maritime space accompanied by three other vacationers, is calling on the French authorities for help.
A few months after the Saïda tragedy, Franco-Moroccan Smail Nabi, one of the survivors arrested and then convicted in Algeria, is living in harsh prison conditions. His family is fighting to get him out of prison.
After five days of hearings, the Yvelines Assize Court handed down its verdict on Friday against Yassine B., a 27-year-old Moroccan, tried for the murder of Moustapha A. (44 years old), stabbed 42 times, on the evening of December 22, 2019.
After a 12-year prison sentence for his escape from Beauvais and 13 years of detention in Bordeaux for drug trafficking, the Franco-Moroccan Mohammed Benabdelhak, alias "the Bumpy One", sees his criminal record further aggravated by a new conviction.
A 27-year-old Moroccan is appearing before the Yvelines Assize Court for the murder of Moustapha A. (44 years old) on the evening of December 22, 2019, in Les Mureaux. He faces life imprisonment.
Prosecuted in detention for corruption, blackmail and defamation, two gendarmes who were serving at the Lalla Mimouna brigade under the command of the royal gendarmerie of Souk El Arbaa and a drug trafficker were sentenced in the first instance to prison terms.
The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rabat has sentenced MP Yassine Radi , a member of the Constitutional Union (UC) party, his businessman friend and two young women to various prison sentences for, among other things, incitement to debauchery and failure to report a crime.
The criminal chamber of the Marrakech Court of Appeal sentenced a notary and the commercial director of a major real estate company to six years in prison each for fraud, forgery and breach of trust.
The Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis has sentenced a man in his forties to a heavy prison sentence for marital rape and abuse against his wife of Moroccan nationality.
According to the latest count by the General Delegation for Prison Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR), a large number of French people are among the foreign inmates in Moroccan prisons.
Zouhir Ainaaissa, a Spaniard originally from the Rif in northern Morocco, has been serving a two-year sentence in the Mohammedia prison for 14 months for sharing videos on Facebook in 2018 about the Rif protests. His lawyer is unsuccessfully trying to obtain his extradition so that he can serve the rest of his sentence in Spain.
A Mauritanian arrested in possession of Polisario militiamen’s uniforms was sentenced on Thursday by the criminal chamber of the court of first instance in Tangier to 20 years in prison and a heavy fine.