France backs the Morocco’s bid to organize the 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup, said on Thursday the head of the French Football Federation (FFF). In a meeting held on the 22nd of March at the FFF headquarters and attended by President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation Fuzi LEkjaa and his French counterpart Noël Le Graët, the French federation insisted that it is a strong supporter of the Moroccan proposal, reports the Moroccan Football federation on its official
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody on Tuesday, 20th of March, in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), by the anti-corruption office, said Mediapart. He was summoned up after the opening of an investigation, suspecting the fact that his victorious presidential campaign in 2007 was allegedly financed by Libya, said Le Monde. A judicial inquiry was opened in April 2013 and Sarkozy was heard for the first time on these accusations. His custody can last forty-eight hours and he
Salah Abdeslam, the only member left alive of the commandos that carried out the 13 November attacks in Paris has just spoken for the first time before a French judge in charge of the investigation. According to Agence France Presse and Reuters, the Belgian-Moroccan national «declared that one of the suspects did not help him escape, but refused to discuss his own involvement in the attacks.» This Friday, March 9, Salah Abdeslam was confronted with Ali Oulkadi, a close relative of
For more than a year, Cairo By Night has been on the brink of closing down after the cancellation of Saad Lamjarred’s concert on October 29, 2016 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The company sued the Moroccan pop singer but the case is still proceeding.
Moroccan pop singer Saad Lamjarred accused of allegedly raping a French girl in October 2016, is to visit Morocco, reports AFP on Tuesday quoting several sources. On his social media accounts, (Instagram and Facebook) the 32-year-old declared on Monday that he is «temporarily vising Morocco in the coming days», to launch his new song «Ghazali Ghazali». Meanwhile, contacted by the French news agency Lamjarred’s father Abdou Bachir confirmed that his son is
King Mohammed VI successfully underwent an operation this Monday 26th February. He had on Saturday 20th January 2018 a heart rhythm disorder. The King's doctors said that medical examinations carried out for this purpose revealed an atrial flutter. The ablation by radio frequency of this arrhythmia, performed today at the Ambroise Paré clinic in Paris, allowed the normalization of the heart rhythm. At the end of a rest period as prescribed by his treating physicians, the King will
In Libourne (south-west France), a doctor was suspended for six months by the disciplinary chamber of aquitaine of the medical order, reports France Bleu. He is accused of discriminating against a patient's mother who was wearing Hijab, after the Paris attacks in 2015. On the day of the incident, the practitioner took the woman to task during a consultation, indicating that the scarf she wore was «a sign that she was not integrated» and that she had to «pick a
The French-Swiss Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan, detained over rape accusations, will remain in prison, according to Agence France-Presse. The Paris Appeal Courton rejected Thursday his appeal against his detention. Before taking a decision, the investigating chamber had appointed a medical expert. The latter ruled that Tariq Ramadan's condition is compatible with his detention. Arrested on February the 2nd, the 55-year-old intellectual has claimed that he was suffering from multiple sclerosis
Scholars at the Grande mosquée de Lyon and Villeurbanne have demanded on Wednesday the «immediate release of the Swiss academic (…) accused of raping» two women, reports Ouest France. Kamel Katbane, rector of the Grand Mosque of Lyon and his the one of Villeurbanne, Azzedine Gaci, insisted that Tariq Ramadan should be released, referring to his medical condition. The two officials issued a joint statement indicating that Ramadan was a «victim of a
Invited by the political broadcast, Bourdin Direct, aired on BFM TV and RMC, the Vice President of the National Front (FN), Louis Aliot, criticized Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia when speaking about the migration issue. Also a member of the Eastern Pyrenees, Aliot believes that the North African countries above-mentioned are «destroying their youth», while «sending them to France». Based on a parliamentary report published on Tuesday, 21st of February, by the National