Belgian authorities have arrested 33-year-old former world kickboxing champion Jamal Ben Saddik as part of an investigation into a kidnapping and assault. Local media reports confirm that the Antwerp-born boxer is in jail after allegedly ordering the kidnapping and assault of a dock worker at the port of Antwerp. The worker reportedly accepted an advance payment to extract a shipment of cocaine but failed to do so. Consequently, the criminal gang kidnapped and beat him. Chris Loix, Ben
Moroccan tennis player Reda Bennani, seeded No. 14, qualified for the Wimbledon Juniors round of 16 on Monday, beating Britain's Oliver Bonding in three sets (6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (10-6)). With this victory, Bennani becomes the first Moroccan boy to win a junior main draw match at Wimbledon in 20 years, according to the official X account of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The last similar win was by Mehdi Ziadi in 2004. Additionally, Bennani is only the fifth Moroccan junior player
A fire broke out on Saturday in the house of Faouzi Achbar, the Dutch-Moroccan Rotterdam Deputy Mayor for the center-left political party THINK (Dutch: DENK), according to a Monday report by the Netherlands' national broadcaster NOS. The fire, believed to be arson, started around 22:30. Fortunately, Achbar and his family were not home at the time. It is unknown who started the fire and why the alderman was targeted, NOS explained, adding that the police say they are currently investigating the
The escape of a notorious Italian fugitive has triggered an international manhunt. Italian media reports reveal that entrepreneur Giacomo Bozzoli is believed to have fled to Morocco by boat from Spain. In 2015, Bozzoli was sentenced to life imprisonment for the grisly murder of his uncle, whom he allegedly disposed of by throwing into a furnace at the family foundry in Marcheno. According to Il Messaggero, Giacomo Bozzoli initially went into hiding in Switzerland to secure his assets and
Following the case of Youssef El Mahmoudi, who identifies as a «Saharawi activist», two other Sahrawis applied for political asylum in Spain on Monday, July 8th, at Madrid's Barajas airport. They were traveling from French Guiana to Casablanca with a layover in Madrid, where they seized the opportunity to submit their asylum applications, according to Spanish media. These applications will first be reviewed by the Sub-Directorate of Borders under the Ministry of the Interior, and
Moroccan AI influencer Kenza Layli has claimed victory in the world’s first-ever AI beauty pageant. «While I don’t feel emotions like humans do, I’m genuinely excited about it», said the Hijabi Instagrammer in an interview with New York Post on Monday. The lifestyle influencer secured the $20,000 grand prize for her human creator, winning over 1,500 computerized challengers. This beauty pageant is part of the inaugural World AI Creator Awards (WAICAs), in
Every summer, a significant commemoration goes largely unnoticed: the launch of the Al Wahda Road, or Unity Road, on July 5, 1957. Initiated by King Mohammed V, this monumental project mobilized nearly 12,000 young Moroccans, symbolizing the collective efforts of an entire generation in the wake of independence.
Thousands of Moroccans responded to the call of the Moroccan Front in Support of Palestine and Against Normalization, participating in a mass march in Tangier on Sunday, July 7, 2024, in support of the Palestinian people, who have been suffering from continuous Israeli attacks since last October. The march began at the Iberia Mosque and proceeded through several streets in the city, including Belgium Street and Pasteur Street, before culminating at Place des Nations. The participants,
Ryanair was forced to divert a flight from Agadir to London on Wednesday after a violent altercation broke out among passengers over seating arrangements. The flight left Morocco as scheduled, but tensions among passengers escalated just 36 minutes into the flight, according to British media reports. The plane landed in Marrakech after heated arguments escalated into physical altercations with punches thrown and screams heard. Upon landing, police intervened, removing the disruptive
A prominent figure within the Polisario movement, Bachir Mustapha Sayed, the brother of the group's founder, proposes to organize «a general conference to evaluate» the situation in the Tindouf camps and «take exceptional measures». Sayed presents his initiative as the only remedy to the chaos and the decline of the Polisario. He also addressed his appeal to the elements of the Front's militias so that they «elect their representatives to the general
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