
Morocco Reports 30% Drop in Crime Rate for 2022, Police Data Shows
The fight against crime in Morocco has borne fruit in 2022, with a 30.22% reduction, according to the annual report published by the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).

The fight against crime in Morocco has borne fruit in 2022, with a 30.22% reduction, according to the annual report published by the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).

Racism was indeed the motive of the perpetrator of the shooting that occurred yesterday, Friday, December 23, in Paris, killing three people and injuring three others, all of Kurdish origin.

Yassine Mahi, the radicalized Belgian-Moroccan arrested for killing a police officer in Schaerbeek, will not know his fate before the end of the year. The Brussels council chamber has decided to extend his detention for at least one more month.

Tried on appeal by the special assize court in Paris, the Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the Thalys attack, says he is ashamed.

The police arrested on Wednesday in Gernika (Basque Country) a Moroccan accused of jihadist indoctrination. The defendant had been living in Biscay for several years and was in an irregular administrative situation.

In recent months, Spain has expelled without prior trial Moroccan imams accused of Salafism, including Mohamed Saïd Badaoui, Amarouch Azbi and Yahya Benaouda.

The Spanish government has agreed to repatriate several wives of Spanish jihadists, including Moroccans, as well as their children, from the camps in Syria. Others before them, who accepted to return to Spain, ended up in prison. This is the case of Asia Ahmed and Fátima Akil, of Moroccan origin.

The Spanish government has decided to repatriate the wives of four Spanish Islamic State jihadists detained in Syria with their Spanish children. One of them is of Moroccan origin.

An individual suspected of being linked to the terrorist group Daesh was arrested in Salé. He would be involved in the preparation of "the execution of terrorist plans aimed at seriously undermining public order."

The Franco-Moroccan activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten , mother of Sergeant-Chief Imad, one of the victims of terrorist Mohammed Merah, went to the Paul-Constans high school in Montluçon (Allier), where she shared her message of peace and love.

The Moroccan Salafist Mohamed Said Badaoui , detained for a month at the Foreigners’ Detention Center (CIE) in Barcelona, was expelled to Morocco by the Spanish authorities on Saturday.

The government has stripped a Franco-Moroccan, convicted in 2018 for participation in a criminal association with a view to preparing a terrorist act, of his French nationality.