Wanted for the murder of Mehdi Ettir, a 23-year-old man killed in 2011 in Paris, Hassan Benhamza, 22, pretended to be dead to escape justice, with the complicity of his family. Twelve years later, in 2023, he will finally be arrested and then convicted in Morocco. He has appealed. The victim’s family is demanding justice.
The fiancé of the French lawyer, who accused three sons of businessmen of having raped her in Casablanca, and who is currently in prison, knows the date of the verdict of his trial.
Issam Lahrach, the "boss of bosses" of the drug trafficking in Nantes, was arrested in Morocco as part of a judicial investigation into a kidnapping and sequestration. Rapper Maes had already been arrested in Casablanca in this same case.
A dispute opposes I.B., a resident of Kenitra, to a Dacia dealer concerning a new Dacia Sandero Stepway purchased. A judicial expertise, ordered following a complaint from the owner, reveals technical defects that call into question the compliance of the vehicle.
The Court of Appeal of Tetouan has decided to postpone to April the examination of the case of the burglary of the home of a Moroccan residing abroad (MRE), committed in 2020. New witnesses have been summoned for this next session.
Marion Maréchal, far-right European deputy, will be tried before the Valence criminal court for defamation against a Muslim association. She faces up to 12,000 euros in fines.
Prosecuted for embezzlement of public funds, the Istiqlal party deputy and former president of the Sidi Kacem municipal council, Mohamed El Hafid, was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison, including one year firm, as well as the payment of a fine of 10,000 dirhams and damages of two million dirhams to the municipality.
Five months after the verdict of the Sky ECC mega-trial for international cocaine and cannabis trafficking involving Maghrebians, another case called "Costa" is now being brought before the Tongeren criminal court. The trial is ongoing.
Morocco and France have decided to strengthen their cooperation in the legal and judicial fields. The two countries signed a joint declaration to this effect on Monday in Rabat, part of which is dedicated to Moroccans residing abroad (MREs).
After an immediate appearance on Friday, March 7, 2025 before the judicial court of Montauban, Fouad L., a man of nearly 40 years old, who was considering getting married in Morocco to the young woman he is in love with, was sentenced to a prison sentence.
Morocco has made significant progress in its fight against money laundering. This emerges from the seventh annual report of the Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, published on March 6, 2024. This official document shows a positive evolution of key indicators, testifying to increased mobilization of the authorities.
The Castres criminal court sentenced the husband of a Moroccan woman for violence against her for more than 10 years.