While the Moroccan justice system has indeed opened an investigation against Ayem Nour for "child abduction" and a trial should take place in the coming months, the French consulate general issued a laissez-passer to the former reality TV star and columnist, allowing her to leave Morocco with her son Ayvin and return to France in September, after being stranded there for months.
Eight people belonging to a criminal network - including a deputy from the Constitutional Union, lawyers, company managers, an official at the court of first instance in Casablanca - were arrested and then placed in detention.
The Spanish justice system has confirmed the 26-year prison sentence handed down by the Huesca court against Abdelkader Abid Allah Ben Moussa, 52, for the murder of his ex-wife, Hasna A., whom he stabbed 12 times in Barbastro on June 30, 2021, in the presence of their three minor children.
The banker from Tangier accused of embezzling 12 million dirhams from his clients’ accounts, as well as his 26 co-defendants, will soon be informed of their fate.
A court in Palma has acquitted a 52-year-old Spaniard who had fatally run over a Moroccan on a sidewalk in Sa Pobla in July 2018.
The fifty-year-old who had usurped the position of mission officer in the royal cabinet in Rabat was sentenced by the court of first instance in Salé.
Involved in a case of fraud in the awarding of public contracts, the mayor of the city of Fez, Abdeslam Bekkali, as well as eleven people are being prosecuted, one in provisional release, and the others in pre-trial detention. Their trial will open on October 17.
No mitigating circumstances for the "iron lady" of the Souss, the main defendant in a case of embezzlement and breach of trust. She received a heavy sentence from the criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rabat in charge of financial crimes.
The introduction of the day-fine system as part of alternative sentences could become a reality in Morocco. A law should be voted on soon in this direction.
Child marriage is taking on alarming proportions in Morocco. In 2021, 19,000 cases were recorded, compared to 12,000 the previous year.
Seized by several NGOs who denounce identity checks by the police, which they consider "discriminatory", the Council of State ruled on this very sensitive issue on Friday.
In Fez, a deputy, elected officials and civil servants find themselves in the sights of justice, for fraud in an auction sale of cars seized at the municipal pound after revelations to the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of the city.