Four months in prison and a fine of 41,000 dirhams. This is the sentence handed down by the court of first instance in Rabat against the promoter of a YouTube channel, prosecuted for illegal use of a drone and dissemination of information without authorization.
The cybercops would have frozen the substantial cryptocurrency ransom sent to Morocco after the kidnapping of David Balland, co-founder and former employee of Ledger, a French cryptocurrency company, as well as his partner.
Abdelatif Abdouh, parliamentary adviser and leader of the Istiqlal Party, and the other main defendants in the "Saâdi Casino" case have been arrested by the judicial police services of the city of Marrakech. They are expected to be incarcerated in the local prison of L’Oudaya.
In Morocco, single mothers continue to be victims of prejudice and discrimination. As proof, Moroccan law does not allow these women to request DNA tests to establish the paternity of their child.
French Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, now supports the ban on marriages between French and "irregular foreigners" and supports a bill that will be examined on February 20 in the Senate.
The Paris Criminal Court has convicted commentator Jean-Claude Dassier, former president of the Olympique de Marseille (OM) football club, for anti-Muslim remarks made on air in December 2022.
The trial of a major real estate developer should open in the next few days before the criminal court of first instance of Aïn Sebaâ in Casablanca. He is involved in a case of "abusive seizures" of 47 properties belonging to members of a housing association of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs).
Accused of filming the Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex with a drone without authorization, the owner of a YouTube channel was arrested and then detained.
On Friday, the authorities of the United Arab Emirates handed over to the Moroccan authorities the municipal elected official and member of the Fès City Council, Sara Khaddar, who had been arrested by border police at Dubai airport after arriving from Turkey. She was the subject of an international arrest warrant and had been listed in Interpol’s database, pursuant to a warrant issued by the National Brigade of Judicial Police (BNPJ).
On appeal, the seven far-right activists - including their probable ringleader, Marc de Cacqueray-Valménier - suspected of planning racist violence after the France-Morocco match in the 2022 World Cup semi-finals got off the hook. On Friday, the public prosecutor’s office withdrew its appeal, thus terminating the public action.
The administrative court of Fez has ordered the city council to pay, as compensation, a fine of 25,000 dirhams to a child bitten by a stray dog in 2023.
The Court of First Instance in Oujda has condemned the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) for denied boarding due to "overbooking".