The Provincial Court of Cadiz has rejected in an order the request of the lawyer of Mohamed Amahda, known as Tony, who had requested his extradition to Morocco last April to serve the rest of his sentence. The accused had been sentenced in 2013 for the murder of Laura Gutierrez, a young nursing student, to a sentence of 18 years and 3 months in prison, reduced in 2014 by the Supreme Court to 14 and a half years.
The Court of Appeal of Casablanca sentenced, on Friday, July 9, the journalist Soulaimane Raissouni to five years in prison for rape and kidnapping. He has been on a hunger strike for more than 90 days.
The trial of a Spaniard, prosecuted for exploiting a Moroccan worker and a presumed crime against workers’ rights, is due to open this Wednesday, July 7 at the provincial court of Ciudad Real. He faces three years in prison for having exploited him for three years on his farm in Socuéllamos.
Another postponement of the trial of Abdelali Hamieddine , a parliamentarian and one of the leaders of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), prosecuted for the murder of the left-wing student Mohamed Ait El Jid Benaissa.
The Moroccan authorities spoke on Tuesday about the ban on access to the territory of the Belgian lawyer Christophe Marchand. According to the press release from the Interministerial Delegation for Human Rights, it is a sovereign decision, taken in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to the entry and stay of foreigners in the Kingdom of Morocco, emigration and irregular immigration.
Mohammed H., former chef at the restaurant La Boutarde, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, appears this week before the Nanterre Assize Court for rape and sexual assault on three employees between 2014 and 2019. The charges against the Moroccan-born defendant are serious and could cost him dearly.
A new trial could open after the discovery of traces of a male DNA not belonging to the former Moroccan gardener Omar Raddad , convicted and then pardoned for the death of Ghislaine Marchal, killed on June 23, 1991 in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes). His lawyer Sylvie Noachovitch has decided to file a request for a retrial of the 1994 trial this Thursday, June 24.
The trial of the Moroccan Samir I. known as "Tajine" opened on Wednesday in Nanterre, four months after his arrest in Marbella, Spain. Sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison, he will be tried again for two drug cases, including one that led to the seizure of cocaine hidden in a torpedo fixed under a cargo ship.
The trial of journalist Omar Radi has been postponed to June 15. This decision comes after his lawyers highlighted the "irregularities" that weigh down the "espionage" part of this case.
The appeal trial of a 28-year-old Moroccan man, accused of killing his girlfriend in their apartment in Nîmes on the night of November 19 to 20, 2016, opened on Monday, May 31, before the Ardèche Assize Court. He had been sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance.
The trial of Adil Sefrioui, the Moroccan victim of a violent racist assault by a septuagenarian in Dole scheduled for last Friday did not take place. The sole judge of the Chamber declared himself incompetent for this case.
The Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is in favor of reducing the pre-trial detention rate in Morocco. The Attorney General of the King at the Court of Cassation, El Hassan Daki, indicated this on Friday in Tétouan, during a study day on "pre-trial detention in Morocco".