Burning the national flag is an “attack on the dignity of Moroccans”, Moroccan Expatriates’ Council

The Council of the Moroccan community abroad condemned, on Sunday, the actions of the individuals who burned the national flag during a demonstration staged Saturday in Paris, stressing that this “childish and coward” act is a “serious attack on “one of the symbols of national sovereignty”.

“The desecration of the national flag is a criminal act that has nothing to do with freedom of expression,” said Abdellah Boussouf, Secretary General of the council, known by its French acronym as CCME.

This “barbaric behavior is harming generations of Moroccans, both in the north and south of the Kingdom, who have made huge sacrifices for the independence of Morocco, the unity of its lands and for its progress and development”, he pointed out in a statement issued by the Council.

The Council recalled the actions that the different generations of Moroccan expatriates have deployed and still deploy in favor of the defense of the Motherland, as well as their firm commitment to its sacraments and their concern to raise their offspring according to the plural, open and tolerant identity of the Kingdom.

“This kind of provocative action will in no way undermine the national cohesion and passionate relationship that binds the Moroccans of the world to their mother land, their King and their co-citizens, the statement added.

Rif Hirak: masks dropped in Paris

The demonstration staged in Paris purportedly to mark the third anniversary of the death of Mohcine Fikri and the ensuing Al Hoceima events has unmasked the demonstrators. They took to the street not to support the rioters that were convicted following the Al Hoceima events, but to defend their separatist whims. They no longer speak of socio-economic claims, but of the independence of the Moroccan Northern Rif region, allying themselves with the Polisario and burning the national flag, which is deemed an outrage by Moroccans.

This outrage reveals, if need be, that the social demands that were put forward during the Rif demonstrations were only a cover of the true aims of the instigators of these demonstrations: disorder and separatism.

These troublemakers had actually infiltrated the protesters of the northern region to propagate their separatist claims, threatening thus the unity of the country.

And when they burnt the national flag at the Paris protest, several participants were shocked and left the demonstration to protest against the separatism plan of the organizers.