The trial of Jesus Heredia Heredia, alias "El Pantoja", one of the main leaders of Moroccan hashish trafficking in the strait, opens this week at the headquarters of the Cádiz Provincial Court section in Algeciras. The prosecution has requested 13 years in prison and a fine of twelve million euros against him.
The profile of Brahim K., a radicalized young Moroccan-Tunisian, worries the French investigators. He will be arrested on September 7, the eve of the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks.
Prosecuted for the misappropriation of public funds and the signing of direct contracts in the context of COP 22, the mayor of Marrakech , Mohamed Larbi Belcaid, and his deputy, Younes Benslimane, did not appear on Wednesday, September 15 before the court. As a result, the first instance chamber of the court of appeal of the ochre city postponed the trial to October 13.
The Court of Cassation has confirmed the conviction of Taoufik Bouachrine to 15 years in prison. The former director of the now-defunct daily Akhbar Al-Yaoum had been sentenced on appeal to fifteen years in prison for "human trafficking", "abuse of power for sexual purposes", "rape and attempted rape".
The French trial on the November 13 attacks opened on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 before the special assize court in Paris for a duration of nine months. The French-Moroccan jihadist terrorist Salah Abdeslam declares that he has "abandoned everything to become a fighter of the Islamic State".
In Angers, the appeal trial of Moroccan cannabis traffickers ended last Thursday, with severe requisitions, including the seizure of a house in Morocco.
He has earned the status of the most closely monitored prisoner in France. Salah Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the jihadist commandos who, on November 13, 2015, caused the attacks that killed 130 people and injured more than 350 in Paris and Saint-Denis. As the Special Assize Court of Paris is about to plunge back into the hell of what happened that day, security around Salah Abdeslam has been tightened.
Idris Hasan, the Uyghur national arrested at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca and then incarcerated in the Tiflet prison on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization, has not yet cleared his name. His extradition trial to China will open before the Moroccan Court of Cassation on September 1.
The court in Girona, in northern Spain, sentenced a Moroccan man to 8 years in prison for repeatedly raping and kidnapping a young woman in an apartment in 2015.
An 18-year-old Moroccan migrant was arrested on Saturday and then detained in the prison in Ceuta. Accused of having attacked his girlfriend with a knife, he is being prosecuted for assault and battery and gender-based violence.
A man of Moroccan origin is accused of having tried to stab another in December 2016 following a dispute in Granada. The public prosecutor’s office in the city has requested seven years and seven months in prison against him. His trial will open on September 16.
The Casablanca Court of Appeal sentenced journalist Omar Radi to 6 years in prison on Monday, July 19. Bad news for human rights associations, who have constantly called for his release, denouncing a political trial. The Moroccan journalist was the subject of a double investigation into "espionage" and "rape".