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Maes: court proceedings in Tangier

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This dossier follows court decisions involving French-Moroccan rapper Walid Georgey, known as Maes, distinguishing sentencing, appeals and actual release.

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On 6 November 2026, two outlets report an appeal reduction from seven years to one year in prison. Actual release is not established.

Maes: reports say appeal court reduces sentence to one year

Médias24 and Al3omk reported on 6 November 2026 that Tangier’s appeal court reduced rapper Maes’s prison sentence from seven years to one year. His legal name is Walid Georgey.

Panoramic view of Tangier.
Tangier, October 2017. Geographic archive illustration; does not show the trial. mokhtarakel1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0; resized. — mokhtarakel1 / Pixabay / Wikimedia Commons — CC0 1.0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ — 25 octobre 2017, redimensionnée.

The accounts also describe reduced sentences for other defendants. They place the ruling between the evening of 5 November and the early hours of 6 November, differing on the exact date.

Médias24 expects release because of time already served. That expectation is not an observation of his leaving prison: the sources consulted do not establish his actual release.

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