Jawad Bendaoud, also known as the «landlord» of the Saint-Denis jihadists will finally be convicted for «concealment of terrorist criminals». The 30-year-old has been sent to the criminal court, AFP reported on Friday (September 8th). The judges believe that Jawad Bendaoud knew that he was hosting the perpetrators of the attacks, but without determining their criminal plans. In their order signed Wednesday, the investigating magistrates followed the requests of the
Tunisian authorities have allegedly expelled Prince Moulay Hicham, claims Algerian online newspaper TSA. The cousin of King Mohammed VI was in Tunis to give a lecture. «After a visit to the police station, Moulay Hicham, escorted by police officers, was being deported to Paris at the end of the day (Friday) on an Air France flight,» the source added. At the end of August, Moulay Hicham was in Qatar where he had taken part to a conference on the «Arab Spring».
Algeria refuses to grant approval to diplomat José Maria Ridao proposed last April by the Rajoy government to be the Spanish consul in Algiers, El Pais reports. The online version of El Pais believes that the Algerian authorities have not appreciated Riado's essay «El vacío elocuente» on the writer Albert Camus. His friendship with the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo, who died and was buried last June in Marrakech, would have allegedly negatively affected his candidacy,
Le skieur marocain Samir Azzimani a poinçonné, jeudi à Cardrona Valley (Nouvelle Zélande), son ticket de qualification pour les Jeux olympiques d'hiver, prévus du 9 au 22 février 2018 à Pyeongchang en Corée du Sud. C’est la deuxième fois que le champion marocain participe aux JO d’hiver mais dans deux épreuves distinctes, un exploit inédit dans l’histoire du sport mondial. Joint au
La chambre criminelle de première instance chargée des affaires du terrorisme près l'annexe de la Cour d'appel à Salé a prononcé, jeudi, des peines allant de 2 à 3 ans de prison ferme à l'encontre de quatre prévenus condamnés dans des affaires de terrorisme. Deux accusés ont écopé de 3 ans de prison ferme pour «constitution d'une bande en vue de préparer et commettre des actes terroristes,
No, the Moroccan consul in Girona has not been dismissed. A source from the Moroccan Foreign Ministry, told Le Desk, a local online newspaper, in response to the information published by the Spanish online newspaper El Confidencial. The latter announced that «the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed the Consul of Morocco in Girona, Mohamed El Harrak, while he was only appointed on the 28 of December». «The aforementioned sources indicate that he is accused of
A source from the Qatari Embassy in Rabat confirmed to Yabiladi today that «it does not have any information regarding dropping visa requirements for Moroccan citizens». For his part, Abdul Samad Nasser, a Moroccan journalist working for the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera, tweeted saying that offering visa-free entrance to Moroccans was announced mainly by the Moroccan News Agency. He also added that : «However, a source from the Interior Ministry told me that the decision has
L'homme d'affaires et grand mécène français, Pierre Bergé, est décédé ce vendredi à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (sud-est de la France) à l'âge de 86 ans, des suites d'une «longue maladie». C’est ce qu’annonce la Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent. «La Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent, Paris et la Fondation Jardin Majorelle, Marrakech ont l'immense tristesse
Thales, a French multinational company that builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, said it would inaugurate its industrial Competence Centre in Casablanca, a 3D metal printing plant, Arabian Aerospace reported today. According to the same source, the «plant will become a platform allowing the international requirements of the group and its customers to be met». The Center is part of the Industrial Acceleration Plan 2014-2020 initiated by the government.
Several passengers on the Metro in Madrid, Spain defended on Wednesday a Moroccan couple who have been racially assaulted by a man. The incident took place at around 11. 45 at the República Argentina station on Line 6, RadioMadrid reports today. Annoyed and frightened by the man’s insults, several passengers have asked him to leave the metro. In a short video published by the same source, the man urged the Moroccan couple to leave Madrid saying : «We don’t want