Mohamed Koraichi left Lecco (Italy) with his family four years ago to join Daesh in Syria. But he is now calling for his own extradition. Through Italian media Il Giornale, he expressed this Saturday his conditions to engage and cooperate with the police. Having received Italian citizenship in 2013, he expresses his «disillusion» from the Kurdish prison of Al Hassaka. «At first we were treated well. But after the bombings [against Daesh and the Kurdish army, ed], everything
A Muslim woman was praised for confronting a man who was making anti-Semitic comments about a Jewish family in a London tube line, Sky News reports. The man who was standing next to a Jewish man and his child, opened the bible and started reading a passage with a quote about the «synagogue of Satan», while leaning towards the little kid. Around noon I witnessed appalling anti Semitic abuse towards this Jewish Family on the northern line. Fair play to other passengers who
This 46-year-old French-Moroccan actor shot for Steven Spielberg and Abdellatif Kechiche. In Morocco, he also shot about forty Italian, Moroccan and German films. Speaking to Yabiladi, he recalls his debut and the turning points of his career.
Two fishermen were killed while at least nine others are still missing after a boat sunk near the Tan Tan coast in southern Morocco, Reuters reports, quoting the fisheries department on Friday. The authorities are still searching for the missing people while the two bodies were found by two fishing boats, the same source said. For the record, the sinking boat left the port of Tan Tan on Thursday.
In Vitoria, members of the Polisario Front settled down in the capital of the Basque Country have tried to prevent pro-Morocco Sahrawis from holding conferences. On Wednesday November 20, they stormed a conference led by Dahi Aggay, president of the «the Association of missing persons at the hands of the Polisario» and a Sahrawi who spent several years in the Front's prisons in the Tindouf camps before joining the kingdom. Young people, presented as acting on
After it recorded a substantial improvement last year, gaining nine places, Morocco is ranked among the MENA countries that deteriorated in the 2019 edition of the Global Terrorism Index, a report conducted by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
The members of the Foreign Affairs Committee from the two Houses of the parliament will be visiting the Moroccan sand wall in the Sahara. According to Arabic-language newspaper Al Massae, planning and preparations for the visit are underway. Quoting the head of the parliamentarian committee Youssef Gharbi, the newspaper indicates that the trip «is meant to support members of the Moroccan army who are deployed in the Sahara». Meanwhile, Minister-Delegate for National Defense
Moroccan journalist Ali Lmrabet has won the Veu Lliure Prize (Free Voice Prize) by PEN Catalonia, which awards authors who have suffered imprisonment or persecution because of their writing, Periodistas-es reports. The journalist was awarded during a ceremony that took place in Can Alcover in Spain. Ali Lmrabet received this award for «his fight for freedom of expression in Morocco, particularly in the field of journalism», the same source wrote. The journalist «dedicated the
Much to the discontent of its other «allies», Morocco continues to favor the American market to equip its army. On Wednesday, the US State Department approved a military sale to Morocco of 36 Apache attack helicopters for an estimated cost of $4.25 billion.
Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly married his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez in Morocco during a secret ceremony reportedly hosted by Dutch-Moroccan kickboxer Badr Hari and attended by several journalists, Italian gossip magazine Novella 2000 claimed in a recent report. Quoted by Spanish news agency EFE, the magazine reported that rumors about Ronaldo’s secret marriage has emerged in August, when his girlfriend posted on her Instagram account a photo in which she