Special envoy to Rabat and Casablanca
It is a deaf rupture which does not say its name.
However, it has no equivalent under the reign of Mohammed VI.
We must go back to the time of Hassan II and the Ben Barka affair, this opponent who disappeared and was assassinated in Paris, or to the release of
Notre ami le roi
, the devastating book on the former Cherifian monarch, to find traces in the story of such a severe estrangement between two partners supposed to maintain a privileged relationship.
Unlike previous crises, the source of the conflict is not clearly identified.
Searching in Paris and Rabat for the origin of the diplomatic crisis between France and Morocco is like venturing into a game of treasure hunts with a route devoid of beacons.
Clues are deliberately hidden, messages scrambled while the unsaid accumulate on both sides of the Mediterranean.
“I recently met a French friend.
He asked me: “what is the problem with you?”
I replied, "It's...
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