The Tanger Court of Appeal acquitted all the accused in the "satanic rituals" case that caused an uproar in Morocco. At first instance, two of the defendants had been sentenced to five years in prison, while two women, including the plaintiff’s wife, had been sentenced to two years and three months in prison respectively.
Moroccan Taha O., 22, is accused of the murder of Philippine , the student found dead in the Bois de Boulogne. Me Laura Beauvais, a criminal lawyer at the Paris bar, who had defended him in his first rape case, makes disturbing revelations about the young man’s life and psychological profile.
The Court of First Instance in Larache ruled in favor of a driver who was unfairly fined by a police officer.
Algeria is no longer a safe destination for Moroccans. The Moroccan League for the Defense of Human Rights strongly advises Moroccan nationals, particularly artisans and entrepreneurs, not to travel to this neighboring country for the time being in order to preserve their safety.
Latifa Raâfat should testify before the Casablanca Court of Appeal as part of the trial of former MP and former WAC president Said Naciri and former MP Abdenbi Bioui, in the case of Lhaj Ahmed Benbrahim alias "Escobar of the Desert", the former husband of the Moroccan singer.
Allan Lierhmann, the companion of influencer Poupette Kenza, a star on Instagram and TikTok, is in the sights of the French justice system.
A Moroccan and her company specializing in viticulture have been convicted by the Libourne correctional court.
While Jane Benzaquen, the 72-year-old Belgian-Moroccan born in Casablanca, who claims to be the "hidden daughter" of Hassan II and therefore the half-sister of King Mohammed VI, continues her fight for paternity recognition, the royal family "considers itself the victim of an attempted extortion of funds" and files a complaint for fraud.
Escaped from the Bruges prison in 2009 with the famous Malinois criminal of Moroccan origin Ashraf Sekkaki on board a helicopter, Mohammed J. appeared last Thursday before the Antwerp court for cocaine trafficking and possession of weapons. The prosecution requested a four-year prison sentence against him.
The trial of the 26 members of the drug trafficking network led by Abdellah El Haj Sadek Membri, alias the "Messi of hashish", opened this Monday, September 23, before the court in Cádiz in Algeciras. The latter, under an international arrest warrant issued by Spain, would still be a fugitive in Morocco.
Accused of having written a false police custody report to justify the extraction from prison, in April 2012, of Sofiane Hambli, a major cannabis trafficker recruited as an informant, currently detained in Morocco where he has been serving a twenty-year sentence since 2022, François Thierry, former head of the Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (Ocrtis) from 2010 to 2016, appears this Monday before the criminal court of the Rhône.
Hicham L., 49, will appear this Monday before the Assize Court of Pyrénées-Atlantiques for attempted murder on his neighbor Mehdi, 39, whom he accuses of having an intimate relationship with his ex-wife. The two individuals had a violent altercation in 2021 during which the accused stabbed his victim several times with a knife.