The criminal chamber of the Rabat Court of Appeal has just sentenced Hassan Benhamza, 34, to 20 years in prison and nearly 50,000 euros in damages for the murder of Mehdi Ettir , a 23-year-old man stabbed to death in 2011 in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris.
In pre-trial detention awaiting his trial scheduled for June, Driss, accused of drug trafficking, requested his release on Friday to treat a cancer relapse. The Montauban court rejected his request.
The young man in his twenties admitted to the facts and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Rabat Court of Appeal. He had slit his language teacher’s throat on the grounds that he had been sexually assaulted by him.
While they thought he had fled to Morocco, Belgian investigators finally arrested Ali O., convicted in two separate trials for drug trafficking and membership in a criminal organization in the Antwerp region. He is currently incarcerated in Antwerp prison, Belgium.
The behavior of Saïd Naciri, former president of Wydad Casablanca, prosecuted in the "Desert Escobar" case, nicknamed after Malian drug trafficker Mohamed Benbrahim, has irritated Judge Ali Tarchi.
The Al Hoceima Court of Appeal has sentenced a man to death for the murder of his father. The accused had been sentenced to life imprisonment in the first instance.
Mitigating circumstances for Jonathan Harroch, CEO of Nation Sportive group, at the head of City Club, Unique Fitness Clubs and UFC Gym Morocco brands, sentenced to two years in prison in the first instance for issuing checks without funds. He received a reduced sentence on appeal.
Nadia El Bouroumi, the criminal defense lawyer from the Avignon bar who is defending two men out of 51 in the Mazan rape trial, will no longer be able to be part of the bar association or the national bar council.
While maintaining that it was the Jew Arié Engelberg who had assaulted him and that he had simply defended himself, a 16-year-old Moroccan teenager was sentenced to prison and risks being deported to Morocco.
Seized by a young mother seeking compensation for her son born of rape, the Moroccan Court of Cassation has rendered a landmark decision.
Three former members of the Silva proximity brigade in Forest, two of whom are still employed by the Brussels-Midi police zone (Anderlecht, Forest and Saint-Gilles), face prison time for sending a photo of Mohamed-Amine Dardour, the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Soufiane Benali, a 23-year-old man nicknamed "Nana" killed in July 2020 in Forest, to neighborhood delinquents known as "sheriffs".
Abdelkader Belliraj , 67, Belgian-Moroccan sentenced to life for terrorism in Morocco in 2010, has received a Belgian passport. He was released at the end of March from Oudaya prison (Marrakech) following a pardon from King Mohammed VI granted for the end of Ramadan.