On Tuesday, April 16, the driver identified as having deliberately run over 23-year-old doctoral student Badr Bouljoihel received the death penalty. In 2019, the accused was convicted for similar offenses, where the manslaughter was deemed involuntary.
Many parliamentarians are either behind bars or under judicial prosecution since the last general elections. The list includes more than 20 MPs, most of them are from the National Rally of Independents, followed by the Constitutional Union Party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party, then the Socialist Union and the Popular Movement.
Sent by Moulay Ismail to the Netherlands, England and Spain, the Toledano brothers were members of a well respected family the Sultan relied on to maintain good diplomatic relations with Europe.