FIFA has published the list of the international referees suggested for 2018 including 27 Moroccans proposed by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), announced Tuesday the governing body of the national football on its official website, as reported by MAP news agency. The list includes Redouane Jiyed, Hicham Tiazi, Noureddine El Jaafari, Samir Kazaz, Adil Zourak, Reddad Daki and Karim Sabry in the football category. Redouane Achik, Hicham Ait Abbou, Yahya Nouali, El Hassan Azgaou,
Beatrix von Stroch, a German politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and Member of the Bundestag since September 2017, had her Twitter and Facebook accounts deactivated on New Year’s Eve, for calling Muslim men violent and barbaric, reports the German TV channel DW news. On New Year’s Eve, the Cologne police posted a message in Arabic on Twitter, wishing every a happy new year. The tweet did not obviously please the German MP who
A Moroccan national was arrested on Monday, 1st of January, for allegedly kidnapping and wounding an American woman, said a statement issued by the General Directorate for National Security (DGSN ). On Monday afternoon, the Ouazazate National Security Services received a phone call from a man living in Sale who indicated that he was sent an email from a U.S. citizen he knew. Through her message, the woman claimed that she was abducted and subjected to violence by an individual in a house
The training camp for local players expected to participate to the next CHAN-2018, a biennial football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) exclusively featuring players from the respective national championships, held in Morocco from the 13th of January to the 4th of February, has started on Monday, said the Royal Moroccan Federation in a statement. The manager of the national team, Jamal Sellami, had called 26 footballers to take part in
Le service régional de la police judiciaire de la ville de Ouarzazate a arrêté, lundi soir, un individu pour son implication présumée dans une affaire de séquestration et de coups et blessures volontaires à l'encontre d'une ressortissante américaine, indique un communiqué de la Direction générale de la sûreté nationale (DGSN). Les services de la sûreté nationale de Ouarzazate avaient
Le stage de préparation de l'équipe nationale des joueurs locaux, pour disputer le prochain CHAN-2018 (13 janvier - 04 février), démarre lundi, a annoncé dimanche soir la Fédération royale marocaine de football. A cet effet, l’entraîneur du onze national, Jamal Sellami, avait convoqué 26 éléments pour prendre part à ce rassemblement, à l'issue duquel sera désignée la liste
Une personne a trouvé la mort et une autre a été grièvement blessée dans un accident de la circulation, survenu tôt lundi matin, au niveau de l’arrondissement Bab Sebta à Salé, apprend-on auprès des autorités locales. Une voiture légère a percuté un poteau en béton armé d’un immeuble près du marché de gros des fruits et légumes. L’un des trois occupants
A group of teenage girls has attacked a 51-year-old Moroccan veiled woman in downtown Brooklyn on Friday evening, the police said as reported by CBS News. The woman identified as Souad Kirama was at a restaurant where the assault occured. «They attacked me, beat me up and people were just standing there, watching me be beat up, called a 'terrorist' and nobody did nothing. Nothing. Nobody stood up for me», said the woman in a Facebook live video, said the same source. According to
The royal gendarmerie has dismantled a gang involved in illegal emigration to Europe via Libya, and in the kidnapping of candidates, extortion, illicit financial transactions and money laundering, said, Friday, a statement by the royal gendarmerie. Investigations, which started in September 2017 after the arrest by the royal gendarmerie in the city of Beni Mellal of two organizers of illegal emigration, revealed the involvement of a large network operating at national and international
The request of a trainee doctor practicing at the Saint-Denis hospital center, sacked in February 2014 because of his beard deemed religiously ostentatious, was rejected by the Administrative Appeal Court of Versailles, in a decision issued December the 19th, indicates AFP. However, the court ruled that «growing a beard, even a long one, can not alone constitute a sign of religious affiliation». It is only in the presence of some «elements justifying that it actually