The racist remarks, the insults of Tangier officials, directed against the Burkinabe player Issoufou Dayo, as well as the "reprehensible" behavior of coach Driss El Mrabet, are not to the liking of the members of the Renaissance Sportive de Berkane. They made it known on Friday, through a press release, at the end of which they call on the federation to open an investigation.
The Dutch airline KLM has ordered an investigation after Moroccans on board a Royal Air Maroc (RAM) plane bound for the kingdom were the target of racist remarks.
A young man "of Moroccan appearance" described members of the far-right party Vox, including its spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, as "racists." This happened during an information session organized by the party on a street in Bilbao.
France experienced a resurgence of Islamophobia in 2020, while racist acts declined. This emerges from the annual report of the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH) on the fight against racism published on Thursday.
Several cases of racist and xenophobic attacks and murders have been recorded in the Murcia region in recent months. The most striking is that of Younes Bilal, the young Moroccan killed on June 13 in Mazarrón by a former Spanish soldier.
Hundreds of people responded on Sunday to the call to demonstrate launched by the Stop Racism platform to denounce racist and xenophobic acts and crimes in the Murcia region.
Racist attacks against Moroccans continue in Murcia. Unlike the political authorities who do not seem to grasp the situation, despite the case of Younes Bilal, victim of a racist crime on June 13 in Mazarron, migrant associations are multiplying demonstrations. After those on Friday in Murcia, others are planned for tomorrow Sunday in Cartagena.
In front of the Belfort judicial court, a 41-year-old man was sentenced to seven months in prison for charging at two Muslim women near the Grand Mosque of the Glacis. He had also made racist remarks against Islam and Muslims.
The Stop Racism platform in the Murcia region will organize protest movements this weekend against the exacerbation of racist and xenophobic crimes and acts in Spain. The demonstrations will take place in Murcia and Cartagena.
Crimes, violence and other discriminatory acts are multiplying against Moroccans residing in Spain. Faced with the scale of the situation, several human rights organizations are sounding the alarm, calling on the Spanish authorities to act.
For wearing the veil as president of a polling station on Sunday, during the first round of the departmental elections, Rachida Kabbouri, an EELV municipal councilor in Vitry-sur-Seine, was the victim of verbal aggression by voters, before being replaced by an assessor. The prefect considered that, in accordance with the law, she had to show neutrality and not wear any religious symbol.
Younes Bilal, the young Moroccan victim of a racist crime in Mazarrón (Murcia), was buried on Sunday in Morocco.