Prosecuted for having transferred, to his wife’s accounts, significant sums of money belonging to his clients, the director of a bank branch has just been sentenced by the Court of Appeal of Rabat to eighteen months in prison.
Convicted of a new rape committed on a student, near a campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), on the night of September 28 to 29, 2017, Yassine B., a serial rapist already convicted, was sentenced to an additional one-year prison term by the Brussels Criminal Court.
Accused of rape and espionage, Moroccan journalist Omar Radi was sentenced on appeal on Thursday to six years in prison.
Morocco is about to approve the application of electronic bracelets as an alternative to pre-trial detention. This is one of the new amendments to the criminal procedure that will be approved.
The Court of First Instance in Fez handed down heavy sentences to four drug traffickers - aged between 34 and 44 - arrested on January 11 in two cars. During this operation, 1.2 kg of cocaine and 1.5 kg of cannabis resin had been seized.
There are just over 2,200 Moroccans - remanded or convicted - occupying French prisons. This is revealed by the latest count carried out by the prison administration.
The Saragossa court has sentenced the Moroccan Mohammed AD and his wife, Hedangeline AL, of Venezuelan origin, to 34 years in prison for the murder of a businessman from Getxo (Basque Country), buried alive in Pedrola (Saragossa) in 2019.
Sentenced in 2011 to twelve years in prison for his escape from the Bruges prison, the Belgian-Moroccan Ashraf Sekkaki continues to serve his sentence not far from Rabat. In a telephone interview with HLN , he discussed various issues concerning his prison life, and the accusations against him for drug, arms and other trafficking from prison.
After his exile in Morocco, one of the three suspects involved in a case of kidnapping and assault of a young man in October 2013 in Oyonnax was retried last Wednesday - convicted in absentia in 2015 - before the Bourg-en-Bresse criminal court, where he was sentenced to five years in prison, including one year suspended. The victim was accused of having stolen drug products.
Prosecuted on multiple counts, former minister Mohamed Ziane was sentenced on Wednesday by the Court of First Instance in Rabat to three years in prison and the payment of several fines.
A Moroccan in an irregular situation on French territory was sentenced to 8 months in prison with a suspended sentence for having subjected his 14-year-old son to violence for 6 years.
The criminal chamber of the court of first instance in Salé sentenced the four remaining members of the so-called "Moul triporteur" terrorist cell to a cumulative sentence of 60 years in prison. Abderrazak A., the emir of this cell dismantled in September 2020 in Témara, died in prison on December 26 due to health complications.