Lawyers have a crucial role to play in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. This is what the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, affirmed on Thursday in Laâyoune, during a colloquium organized by his department in partnership with the Bar Association of Laâyoune-Agadir-Guelmim.
Four fifth-grade students from a school in Albertville were arrested and heard by the prosecutor. They are accused of making statements that amount to the glorification of terrorism.
Faced with the terrorist threat that looms over it, Morocco is issuing a warning against the infiltration of foreign jihadists.
The majority of the French want their country to toughen judicial measures to counter terrorism. This is at least what a poll conducted in the aftermath of the assassination of history-geography teacher Samuel Paty and the attack on the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice reveals.
Philosopher and politician Luc Ferry has joined the debate raging in France since the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty. According to the former minister, if he were to teach freedom of expression, he would show caricatures "of Jesus, Moses and Muhammad" as well, without insults, without lacking in modesty.
Morocco has confirmed to Denmark the death sentence of former Danish citizen Said Mansour of Moroccan origin for his involvement in the terrorist attacks of May 16, 2003 in Casablanca. These attacks had cost the lives of 45 people.
A 44-year-old Moroccan was arrested last Wednesday for apology for terrorism and dissemination of Salafist ideology among adolescents. The man is suspected of financing the military wing of Hamas, "Al Qassam Brigades".
A Moroccan was arrested in Barcelona by the police. He would have greeted on social networks the assassination of Samuel Paty on October 16.
France has expelled 14 "radicalized" foreigners since late September, including Moroccans. They were registered in the file of reports for the prevention of radicalization with a terrorist character (FSPRT).
Faced with the climate of anger in the Muslim world, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian issued on Thursday a "message of peace to the Muslim world." The French Foreign Minister recalled that France was the "country of tolerance," not of "contempt or rejection."
An imam was taken into custody in Angers. He is accused of defrauding tens of thousands of euros in social benefits, including nearly 150,000 euros in income paid by the Saudi Arabian embassy in France.
A few hours after the attack carried out by a young Tunisian inside the cathedral of Nice, Morocco expressed its proximity and compassion to the victims and their families.