Retried for buying a driver’s license, the rapper Mister You narrowly escaped prison. The Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) criminal court had sentenced him to six months in prison and a 5,000 euro fine.
The conviction by the Moroccan justice system of Brahim Bouhlel continues to fuel controversy in the artistic community. Franck Gastambide and some members of the "Validé" team have spoken out on the case, deploring a heavy sentence for a publication made, above all, to make people laugh.
Designated as the main suspect in the murder of Mohammed Alillou in July 2018 in Bergerac, a Moroccan expressed his regrets before the Dordogne Assize Court. He faces 30 years of criminal imprisonment. Three other people are also on trial.
The Moroccan Tarik Attar suspected of having murdered Valentin Amrouche in 2017 in Montceau-les-Mines (Saône-et-Loire) saw his sentence of 30 years in prison, with a 12-year security period, confirmed by the Dijon Assize Court of Appeal during the night of Friday, May 7 to Saturday, May 8.
The correctional chamber near the court of first instance of Fez sentenced a man and a woman to three years in prison with a fine of 50,000 DH each. The couple had converted several apartments into brothels.
Journalist Mohamed Boutaâm, editor-in-chief of the local news site Tizpress and correspondent for several Arabic-language dailies in the Souss region, was arrested on May 4 in Tiznit , then placed in detention in the local prison of the city. Prosecuted for "interference without title in public functions", he will be informed of his fate on Monday, May 10.
The Marrakech court will rule this Wednesday on the request for release on bail of Brahim Bouhlel and Zbarbooking, sentenced to eight months in prison in Morocco for having filmed and disseminated a video "of a person without his consent" and for "corruption of a minor".
The appeal trial of the Moroccan Tarik Attar, sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance for the murder of Valentin Amrouche, began on Monday, May 3 before the Dijon Assize Court of Appeal. The victim’s grandparents want the sentence to be confirmed.
One of the two Moroccan suspected jihadists arrested in Bolaños de Calatrava (Ciudad Real) in May 2020 was sentenced to two years in prison for indoctrination. The second was released. The prosecution had requested three and a half years in prison against them.
Journalists Souleiman Raissouni and Omar Radi, both prosecuted for sexual assault, have been in pre-trial detention for nearly a year. Their lawyers continue to fight for their conditional release.
Charged with murder, Rachid M. will have spent four years in prison, victim of a judicial error for which he had been sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance, commuted to 20 years on appeal. His innocence was recognized after the real culprit confessed his crime.
On the run since December 2019, Youssef Ben Hamou , a Moroccan-born kickboxer, presented as a "dangerous criminal", was arrested in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht on April 29. Wanted for murder, drug trafficking and possession, armed robbery, illegal possession of firearms, etc., he had been sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of Ray Tensaini in the Netherlands.