France, Alternative Libertaire AL #231 - Morocco: Failure to King (fr)

King Mohammed VI has angered Moroccans and Moroccan in pardoning a recidivist pedophile in 
July. This faux pas revealed the monarch of his god-like pedestal. ---- Each year, on 
different occasions (national holidays including his own birthday and religious 
festivals), the king of Morocco pardoned by his divine intervention thousands of common 
criminals but never political prisoners, monarchist mercy has limits! Thus, when the King 
of Spain is asking the homecoming of his own subjects dealing with the Moroccan justice, 
it is with great pleasure that the King of Morocco gives grace. ---- But grace is not 
always flawless: in July, it was granted a recidivist pedophile! The reaction of much of 
the Moroccan people do not have to wait: in all Morocco, thousands of people took to the 
streets, demanding the immediate cancellation of grace and questioning its foundation and 
operation. Power has responded to shots tonfa... Note that this time, even pure juice 
monarchists beat the pavement: that the absurdity of this grace can not this time be the 
subject of twisted explanations that justify the act of a wise king the populace would not 
be able to discern.

Royal false note

The royal cabinet has accused the prison service of abusing the confidence of the king, 
and decided to blame the Director of Moroccan prisons, soon dismissed. Person, moreover, 
do not regret the dismissal, even cowardly, because the character has accumulated many 
cases of corruption and abuse of power during his service. However, without apology, the 
king recognized the mistake made, set aside the grace, asked the Spanish court to deliver 
the pedophile (something not made until today) and invited him to his palace families 
child victims of the Spanish rapist.

The royalist government Islamist PJD (Justice and Development) in crisis for months, said 
through his Minister of Justice that this grace, and in general all royal decisions 
exceeds its scope. That is to put finely king before the responsibility of his choice, 
while giving us a new proof of the travesty of democracy what the Moroccan constitutional 
monarchy.

This episode marks a profound destabilization of the confidence that the monarchy claims 
to hold the part of the Moroccan people. It is also the first time that the king back on a 
decision, especially a decision concerning diplomatic relations with another country. Some 
activists in Morocco compared with irony this episode with that of the Japanese emperor at 
the end of the Second World War, the Japanese had said he had no divine status.

Marouane Taharouri (AL Paris North East)