After two weeks of detention in the Al Arjat prison, deputy Yassine Radi, involved in a case of attempted murder, was presented on Wednesday before the investigating judge, along with his two co-defendants, a student and a businessman.
Corruption is gaining ground in the judicial sector in Morocco. Several judges and lawyers working in the courts of Casablanca have been heard by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) for acts of corruption. Some of them have been referred to the public prosecutor’s office.
Youness Ibrahimi-Idrissi will appear for the third time before an assize court. This time, he is accused of having killed with a firearm Junior Brei in the parking lot of a residence on Avenue du Blanchissage in Avignon, on July 23, 2018. The accused claims his innocence.
According to sources from the public prosecutor’s office, the Moroccan judicial authorities received 288 international letters rogatory in 2022, of which just over 80 came from France.
Judge of the Audiencia Nacional, Santiago Pedraz, is asking France for authorization to question Loubna Fares, a Spanish woman of Moroccan origin married to a jihadist and arrested in 2019, as part of the investigation against the two Spanish women repatriated from a Syrian camp in January.
The family of Fatima Zahra, a 15-year-old Moroccan teenager from Tata and victim of a gang rape, denounces the insignificant one-year prison sentences handed down against the perpetrators.
The Rabat Court of Appeal this week confirmed the three-month prison sentence against Nezha Majdi, a teacher tried in 2021 for "insulting public authorities with the intention of harming their honor."
The mother of singer and dancer Cheikha Trax was arrested on Tuesday, after assaulting a lawyer the day before at the family court in Marrakech.
Two Moroccan truck drivers transporting 76 kg of cannabis herb and resin from Tangier and destined for the Netherlands were apprehended by customs officers on the A20 in Tarn-et-Garonne. Aged 35 and 39, the suspects were placed in custody pending their immediate appearance trial, which was postponed to June 9.
Opened on Monday, the trial of the riots that broke out in the Cureghem district, the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht after the death of Adil , a 19-year-old man in a police chase, continues until this Wednesday.
The Brussels Sentence Enforcement Court granted on Monday to Berzan Kaplan, cousin of Ahmet Kaplan, the main suspect in the death of Moroccan Ziena Kemous, the privilege of an electronic bracelet. His release has provoked the outrage of the victim’s sisters.
Moroccan lawyer Ghizlane Mamouni, known for her fight against Article 490 of the Moroccan Penal Code and her commitment to reforming the Family Code, will exchange this Tuesday with her counterpart from Nantes, Anne Bouillon, on the situation of women’s rights in Morocco and France, during a conference at the Jacques-Demy media library in Nantes.