Moroccans residing in Italy are the community of immigrants outside the EU which creates the most private companies in this European country, according to a report by the Italian Federation of Chambers of Commerce. In its 2017 report, the Federation said that 68,259 enterprises were created by Moroccans until the end of last year, noting a clear increase in the creation of companies at the initiative of members of the Moroccan community. By region, 6.8% of Moroccan-owned companies are located
A Moroccan national was expelled from Italy to Morocco for security reasons, reports the Italian news agency ANSA on Thursday. The 25-year-old man is accused of sexually harassing female staff at the center where he was staying. He was later arrested for violently attacking the police while they were trying to check his identity. The investigation suggests that while in prison, the man claimed that he belongs to the terrorist organization (ISIS) and that he is intending to carry out an attack
Jawad El Yamiq, a 25-year-old professional center-back footballer, is to join the Genoa Cricket and Football Club, a professional Italian football and cricket club based in the city of Genoa, Italy, reports Kingfut. The Moroccan footballer, who played in the past for Raja Club Athletic, has signed a four-year contract with Genoa for 800, 000 Euros. Jawad El Yamiq C.S. Marítimo was also trying to sign him up but the offer was not as good as the team wanted. In 2017, he was summoned to
The Italian police have managed to indentify two teenagers who were behind the death of a homeless Moroccan man near the northern city of Verona, reports Associated Press on Friday. A 13-year-old and a 17-year-old boy have set 64-year-old Ahmed Fdil on fire on December the 13th, said the same source quoting L’Arena di Verona, an Italian daily newspaper. «It was a joke», said the younger boy to teh police insisting that they did not intend to kill the man. Speaking to RAI, an
An Italian woman of Moroccan descent was arrested on Saturday by agents of the International Anti-Terrorist Section and the Air Border Police at Milan Malpensa Airport, Italy. The arrest occurred following a European arrest warrant issued Thursday by the Paris Court of Appeal. The 35-year-old woman is held responsible for participating in a criminal organization that has been planning terrorist acts, according to the Italian online newspaper, Rai News. The woman asked to be extradited to
Mehdi Benatia, a Moroccan footballer who plays for Italian club Juventus, and for the Morocco national team, has scored the winnin goal for his club defeating AS Roma (1-0) on Saturday, reports BeIn Sport. The current Italian champions, Torino, have «inflicted on Roma their first defeat of the year in a match of great intensity,» added the same source. Juventus are four points ahead of Inter Milan (third). Luciano Spalleti's team suffered from their second consecutive defeat on
A Moroccan national has been expelled by the Italian authorities after he was accused of being an Islamist extremist, said IANS news agency quoting the Italian Interior Ministry. The 37-year-old Moroccan was deported from Italy via a flight from Milan’s Malpensa airport joining the 103 alleged religious extremists that were expelled this year by the Italian authorities, said the same source. According to the same source, the suspect «came to the attention of Italian
A 37-year-old Moroccan national who lives in San Colombano al Lambro, a municipality near Milan, was expelled for terrorist threats, according to the Italian newspaper Affairitaliani. The decree was signed by the Italian Interior Minister, Marco Minniti. The man is described as a follower of the terrorist organization «Islamic State» (Daesh). He lived with his brother, his sister-in-law, and their three children who ran butchery. As for him, he owned a small construction
A Moroccan national was expelled from Italy on Tuesday, November 7, for inciting the internal security of the state, reports on Thursday Secolo d’Italia. His deportation order was signed by the Italian Interior Minister, Marco Minniti. The suspect is a «40-year-old Moroccan national living in Pavia», a town and commune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, according to the Interior Minister. He was reported in 2015 after «working to obtain a large sum of money for
The Moroccan national who deliberately set fire to his apartment in San Ferno della Battaglia, near Como (Northern Italy), in the night of Thursday to Friday, had sent, a few hours before the tragedy, a message on WhatsApp to a person he knew settled down in the city of Monza, says the Italian newspaper II Giornale. «I cannot take it anymore, I'm going to set fire to everything,» he wrote. Except that the message was not received on time. It was only the next day that the woman