Comments on: Morocco: An Alternative to Iran?

By: Annouss

Annouss — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:37:29 +0000

I’d love to know her reactions after all this “levée de bouclier” against her article.

@Taha: I completly agree with your statement about Justice in Morocco but I think it’s a matter of a political will to introduce reforms in this domain. Will we have a new royal commission to work on that like the one for the education ?
Will we have some courageous reforms from the minister (the rafi9) in charge ?

By: Mounhim Tahtahi

Mounhim Tahtahi — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:22:07 +0000

In agreement with the previous poster, I have to elaborate on the justice in Morocco. I don’t know how it is in other parts of Morocco, but in the North (Tangiers, Tetouan) the justice is so corrupt. It’s worse than many south american nations. In those nations it’s mostly the guilty one, paying a lot of money to avoid prosecution. In Morocco (at least the North) they enjoy playing with innocent people. As soon as you get in the hands of justice, because a convicted or prosecuted suspect has mentioned your name, e.g. the suspect has phoned you or he has met you in the last month, it’s enough for the mentioned person to be considered a suspect too. Even though there is no statement indicating so, or any sustaining evidence.
From that point the mentioned person becomes a suspect and the only way to avoid prosecution is to pay a lot of money. If you don’t you end up in prison; the judge will make up something to convict you for.
I have seen it happen, some had enough money and have spent a few months in terrible jails. But some don’t and they stay there for even years until some pardon comes from the king.
You are safe in Morocco as long as your name never has been mentioned by anyone in any way. As soon as your name appears and the police or justice smells money to get, they won’t let you out of their claws until every part of the judicairy chain has been paid up till the judge.
It is disgusting, so many lifes destroyed or traumatised by some greede elements that don’t give a **** about ethics, morality and justice.
It is a long way until Morocco becomes a decent nation. With or without a constitutional monarchy.

By: taha balafrej

taha balafrej — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:19:03 +0000

I agree with almost all your statements and comments about my country. Almost because there is one step you didn’t make. The strong influence of religion on the behaviour of people; The wrong or flawed knowledge of Islam is impacting on the way politics, business, education are conducted…Great efforts are beeing made to build infrastructure: roads, ports, but education indicators are very low and as a result the civic sense is lacking, the sense of common interest is ignored. Efforts for building a country are real, but much more is needed to build a strong and sensitive society.

You touched some problems Morocco is facing but you forgot the most difficult and critical one: justice. Even in the King’s speeches, this problem is pointed as a major obstacle to enter modernity, or to to say the less to drain investment…