King Mohamed VI receives the first vaccine against covid-19 in Morocco on January 28 at the Royal Palace of the city of Fez.MAP/AZZOUZ BOUKALLOUCH / EFE / MAP
Morocco has three very clear red lines: God, the Fatherland and the King.
Any tourist to whom they translate the gigantic Arabic words that are painted on the most colorful mountains of the country knows that.
God, Country and King.
And they know, of course, the Algerian neighbors.
They are aware that Mohamed VI is monarch and "commander of believers", that is, the highest religious authority in the country.
For this reason, it will not surprise much in Algiers the indignation that has aroused in Rabat the fact that this Friday the Algerian chain Echourouk News presented a puppet with the figure of King Mohamed VI.
The puppet offered his hand to be kissed by a guest of the program, the Algerian deputy Suleiman Sadaui, of the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN).
The kissing ceremony in Morocco reflects the loyalty of the subjects towards the monarch.
The deputy refused to kiss the hand and explained that in Algeria only God is worshiped.
The presenter of the program, Bilal Kebache, simulated a dialogue with the king about the accolade that the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, gave Rabat on December 10 on the power of Morocco over Western Sahara and on the resumption of relations diplomats between Israel and Morocco.
The head of the Moroccan Government, Saadedín el Otmani, of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD), ironized on his personal Twitter account: "In view of the continued success of the country on more than one level, and in the matter of the Moroccan Sahara in particular, the enemy media wage a war of insults against the constitutional institutions of the country and against King Mohamed VI ”.
Also the Minister of Human Rights, Mustafa Ramid, described the program on Facebook as "intolerable and unacceptable".
In Moroccan social networks the label "The king is a red line" was created.
For its part, the National Association of Media and Publishers (ANME), described the program as a provocation that attacks the "father of the nation, guarantor of stability and protector of its borders."
From Algeria, the Algerian medium
Dia
,
indicated that the Moroccan head of government did not react when the same Algerian chain presented on January 9 a puppet with his own figure.
And he added that this mockery of the Algerian channel comes after several Moroccan media have mocked the president of Algeria, Abdelmayid Tebún, who has recently been treated in Germany for covid-19.
The
Dia
site
reported that the show's host, Bilal Kebache, has suffered threats on social media.
And he concludes: "When Canal + caricatured Mohamed VI or Hassan II, it did not react, but when Algeria does, it turns red with rage," he concluded.
For its part, the Moroccan media
Le360
, who usually maintains a very close connection with the Royal Palace, indicates that who is behind the Echourouk News chain are Algerian “generals”.
And he adds that Algeria feels bad about the diplomatic victories won by Morocco on the African continent.
And he concludes that the fact that provokes the most anger in Algeria is the rapprochement between Morocco and Nigeria, the best ally of Algerians on the continent, along with South Africa.
"And above all, the project to create a Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline, which could completely suffocate Algeria, depriving it of its main source of income, which is gas."