The 1st chamber of the Bordeaux Criminal Court ruled, on Friday, May 23, on the fate of those involved in the drug trafficking ring dismantled at the end of 2023 in the Saige neighborhood of Pessac. One of the ringleaders is currently in Morocco.
End of the long legal saga between the Moroccan group Ynna Holding and the French company Fives FCB. On May 15, the Moroccan justice dismissed the French company’s case after more than fifteen years of legal proceedings.
Yasmine Tellal is a Moroccan woman who was exploited and suffered violence in the fields of southern France. She has been fighting for seven years to obtain justice. The appeal trial of her former employer opens this Thursday before the Avignon court.
The trial of Saïd Naciri, prosecuted in the context of the "Escobar of the desert" case, the nickname of the Malian drug trafficker Mohamed Benbrahim, continues before the criminal chamber of first instance at the Court of Appeal of Casablanca.
After months of postponements, the trial of Dikke Nordin El Hajjioui in the "Bombs and Grenades" case was supposed to be held this Wednesday. But the Moroccan-born defendant did not appear in court. The prosecution requested a sentence of twelve years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros against him.
The trial of the Apollonia case, considered one of the biggest real estate scandals in France, and in which Morocco is mentioned, continues before the judicial court of Marseille, having started on March 31.
The parents of the "little martyr of the A10" will be tried by the end of 2026. This is the decision of the Court of Cassation of Loir-et-Cher, which rejected the request for a change of venue for the trial, requested by the Attorney General of Orléans.
British mining company Emmerson Plc has initiated arbitration proceedings against Morocco before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the World Bank’s arbitration body. It is claiming 2.2 billion dollars in compensation for its potash project in Khemisset.
While they thought he had fled to Morocco, Belgian investigators finally arrested Ali O., convicted in two separate trials for drug trafficking and membership in a criminal organization in the Antwerp region. He is currently incarcerated in Antwerp prison, Belgium.
The behavior of Saïd Naciri, former president of Wydad Casablanca, prosecuted in the "Desert Escobar" case, nicknamed after Malian drug trafficker Mohamed Benbrahim, has irritated Judge Ali Tarchi.
Nadia El Bouroumi, the criminal defense lawyer from the Avignon bar who is defending two men out of 51 in the Mazan rape trial, will no longer be able to be part of the bar association or the national bar council.
The trial of a Belgian-Moroccan, considered the main perpetrator of the kidnapping and detention of a 13-year-old boy for 42 days in 2020 during the first Covid lockdown, and seven other individuals, opened Tuesday before the Limburg Court of Assizes.