On the run since 2012, Mounir Mansouri, presented as a drug baron from the Paris region , appears on February 10 and 11 in Paris. He is being tried for his alleged role in two large-scale cannabis import networks from Morocco, facts for which he had already been heavily convicted in absentia.
The French justice system launched on Tuesday a call for witnesses concerning Jacques Leveugle, 79 years old, indicted for rapes on 89 minors . The man, incarcerated, has acknowledged having committed assaults during his stays in Morocco and several other countries.
Nearly forty years after the discovery of the child’s body along the A10 motorway , justice has finally set a date. Inass’s parents, of Moroccan origin, will be tried from November 9 to 27, 2026 before the Loir-et-Cher Assize Court, putting an end to an endless procedural wait.
The Meurthe-et-Moselle Assize Court sentenced Abdelkrim Bellot to 30 years of criminal detention, with a 20-year security period. The man was on trial for a shooting that left five injured in 2023 , in the context of a family vendetta.
A Moroccan quinquagenarian with no criminal record appeared before the court for a violent assault that occurred in 2024 in Braine-l’Alleud, in the Walloon region (Belgium). Found guilty of blows resulting in serious injuries, she benefits from a measure of judicial clemency to preserve her employment.
The Senegalese supporters detained in Rabat are now refusing to appear before the courts, demanding a “fair trial.” This escalation is part of a media pressure strategy that has already enabled Dakar to secure favorable decisions from sports governing bodies.
The Moroccan judiciary has ordered the closure of borders against the former director of the Regional Academy of Education and Training (AREF) of Rabat-Salé. This precautionary measure, which also targets other senior officials, is part of the investigation into the alleged misappropriation of public funds related to the controversial "Emergency Program" of education.
The Paris criminal court has been hearing since the beginning of the week a suspected arms- and drug-trafficking network. On Thursday, the main defendant denied being at the head of a criminal organization, although the investigation uncovered significant financial flows and real-estate investments in Morocco .
The trial of Nordin El Hajjioui , an alleged cocaine-trafficking figure in Antwerp, was suspended on Tuesday following a new procedural offensive by his defense. The Moroccan’s lawyers filed multiple recusal requests, blocking the examination of cases involving the importation of more than 25 tons of drugs.
The trial of five men involved in a series of bloody settling-of-scores attacks in Saint-Ouen opened this Monday before the Seine-Saint-Denis Assize Court. El Mehdi Zouhairi , the alleged mastermind behind these operations and currently on the run in Morocco, is among the main defendants in a case marked by a hegemonic struggle over the drug trade.
The Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis is trying five men from this Monday for a double murder committed in 2020 in Saint-Ouen. El Mehdi Zouhairi, suspected of orchestrating this deadly expedition from Morocco to seize new drug dealing points, remains at the heart of the debates despite his absence.
The justice system has sentenced on Friday the former mayor Mohamed El Arabi Belkaïd and his deputy to two years in prison for the misappropriation of public funds related to the organization of COP22 in 2016.