A 49-year-old Moroccan national and father to four children have committed suicide in a tragic incident, on Friday. According to Milano Corriere, a local online newspaper, the father who lives in San Fermo della Battaglia, a commune in Lombardy region, set his apartment to fire. Desperately, the Moroccan national locked himself inside with his four children ( a boy and three girls)and set the place ablaze. The same source indicates that the man and three of his kids were found dead. The
Khalid Chaouki, a Moroccan-Italian national, was elected on Tuesday head of the Great Mosque of Rome, the biggest Islamic institution in Italy, reports the Italian online newspaper La Stampa. «Several years after being founded, the Great Mosque of Rome plays an important role in breaking up with past by choosing Khalid Chaouki, a portrait of a second generation of Muslims in Italy,» said the same source. The latter believes that his election will open a new chapter in «Islam
The Italian authorities have expelled on Thursday 12th of October, a Moroccan national who is considered as a threat to the internal security of the state, said the Italian Ministry Interior in a statement, reported by EFE news agency. The Moroccan man is suspected of having links with people affiliated to the jihadist movement. The 43-year-old man was repatriated by plane from Milan Malpensa International Airport to Casablanca. According to the Ministry, the Moroccan national for whom an
A Moroccan national was arrested on Thursday 5th of October in Roma, Italy for terrifying passers-by near the city’s central Termini rail station, IANS news agency reported on Thursday. The 51-year-old man, according to the same source was holding a knife and «brandishing» it in front of the station. «The Moroccan, who is of no fixed abode, faces charges of resisting arrest, injuring a public official, criminal damage and possessing a dangerous object», adds the
The Mediterranean Foundation for Peace (FMP), based in Naples, has just awarded Fouzia Assouli, President of the Euro-Mediterranean Women's Foundation (FEMF) and Honorary President of the Democratic Federation of Women's Rights (FLDDF) the 2017 Mediterranean Prize for Women. According to a press release, the founding president of the FMP, Michele Capasso, affirmed at the award ceremony at the headquarters of the foundation that this distinction is a tribute to Mrs Assouli's action in favor of
Jailed for sexual assault in Italy, Rachid A. , a Moroccan national is about to be expelled to the kingdom. According to the Italian online newspaper, Polizia Penitenziaria, which quotes La Republica, a Turin court ordered the expulsion of Rachid. The latter reportedly published a few days ago and after spending 9 years and 4 months in prison, concrete evidence attesting the abuses of the police in Italian prisons. «He reported alleged abuses of the prison police and at the same time
Four people, three minors and a 20-year-old man, were arrested in Italy for alleged rape in Rimini, a popular seaside resort southern Bologna, Belga news agency reports today. The group is suspected of having assaulted a couple of Polish tourists on the 26th of August. They allegedly assaulted the young man and then raped his partner. Secondly, they also allegedly raped a transgender prostitute of Peruvian origin. This Saturday, two brothers of Moroccan origin have admitted their deeds
A young Moroccan national residing in Conegliano, a town and commune of the Veneto region, Italy was arrested by the police after he attempted to enter the Aviano Air Base using a fake bade, Il Messaggero said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old was driving a BMW 318 and was accompanied by two American soldiers. Although the base is geographically and tactically very important, the Moroccan man succeeded in entering it twice despite the reinforced security measures. «He used a fake
A Moroccan national was deported by the Italian authorities for celebrating Bardo's terror attack, when three militants attacked the National Museum in the Tunisian capital and took hostages on March 2015. According to La Vanguardia, a Spanish online newspaper, the Italian Interior Ministry reported on Monday the expulsion of a 37-year-old Moroccan citizen who had announced that he «would be easy for him to carry out attacks in the Vatican and poison Rome’s drinking
A Moroccan national died after he was cut in the throat by a broken bottle in Sassuolo, an Italian town in the Province of Modena, Business Standard reports quoting local media. The man has lost a lot of blood and died before making it to the hospital late on Sunday according to the same source. «The man was believed to be around 35 years old and was attacked during an apparent brawl in a local square frequented by drug dealers» states Business standard. An investigation has been