The terrorist group «Islamic State» (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the London Bridge attack through its propaganda «news agency» Amaq, AFP reports. ISIS claimed that «the 28-year-old convicted terrorist was one of its fighters», wrote the Independent. The terrorist group’s announcement comes after Usman Khan killed two people in a knife terrorist attack in London Bridge on Friday before being shot dead by police. The attacker was a former
Thousands of Jews visited Morocco, Thursday, accompanied by Yoshiyahu Pinto, who was recently appointed as the chief rabbinical judge of Morocco, to attend the hillula of Rabbi Ḥaim Pinto, a former leading rabbi in the seaport city of Essaouira. According to the Yeshiva World, thousands of Jews visited the tomb of Rabbi Haim Pinto and celebrated the «coronation of the rabbonim of Shuvu Yisrael in all branches worldwide». Participants went to the city of Casablanca where
The Moroccan authorities prevented, Sunday, four Basque MPs from the «joint group of peace and freedom for the Sahrawi people» from entering Western Sahara, where they planned to stay for a week, Spanish agency EFE reports. According to Carmelo Barrio, a member of the People’s Party (PP) and the coordinator of the joint group, the delegation landed in Laayoune. After arriving in Morocco, the MPs were prevented by authorities from leaving the plane and were forced to
Abdel Hamid Gharbaoui, commonly known as Benny B, is the first dancer and rapper to introduce the boy band style to the French scene in the mid-1980s. Quickly becoming the darling of talk shows, in Belgium and France, he is proud to defend the fact that «the first French rap is Moroccan».
Local authorities in Tetouan have banned a sit-in, scheduled for December 1 in the morning at Moulay El Mehdi Square, to protest «the poor economic conditions in the city». The pasha justified his decision by the fact that no party has submitted to local authorities an application to get an authorization to hold the event. Because of that, according to him, the event would «constitute an obstacle to the circulation and a disturbance of the public order». In recent
Usman Khan, a 28-year-old man who killed two people in a knife terrorist attack in London Bridge on Friday before being shot dead by police, was a former prisoner convicted of terrorism, said British counterterrorism chief, Neil Basu, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. «This individual was known to authorities, having been convicted in 2012 of terrorism offenses. He was released from prison in December 2018 on licence», said the police chief in a statement. The latter
Rotterdam’s mayor Ahmed Boutaleb, who is of Moroccan descent, was accused of being a «puppet in the hands of the Moroccan government» by the Dutch-Moroccan community after banning a Hirak march. Ahmed Boutaleb refused to give the go-ahead to a march of support for Hirak detainees, citing security measures, reports Dutch online newspaper Rijnmond. The mayor and city authorities said the event could provide an opportunity for groups of young people to engage in looting
Trauma’s van Nora is a Facebook group created by a Dutch-Moroccan to help members of her community share their past traumas. The platform gained fame among the Moroccan community in the Netherlands.
Morocco’s national football team has lost one spot in the monthly FIFA ranking, becoming 43rd in the world. The Atlas Lions ranked fifth in Africa, behind Senegal 20th, Tunisia 27th, Nigeria 31st and Algeria 35th. In the Arab World, the Moroccan team comes third, behind Tunisia and Algeria and ahead of Egypt, which ranks 51st in the world. Globally, Belgium 1st, France 2nd, Brazil 3rd, England 4th and Uruguay 5th top the FIFA ranking for the month of November.
An Egyptian citizen and his accomplice were sentenced, Tuesday, to death by the Tangier Court of Appeal for murdering a Moroccan man, mutilating and cremating his remains, Arabic-language newspaper Al Ahdath reports. The victim went missing in November 2018 in mysterious circumstances. The Tangier prosecutor’s office received a complaint in December, which initiated an investigation. The latter revealed later that the man was killed and that his body was cut then cremated to conceal the