Nearly sixty years after the disappearance of his father, the son of Moroccan opponent Mehdi Ben Barka is not giving up. In a letter to Mohammed VI and Emmanuel Macron, he asks the two heads of state “to make the necessary decisions” to elucidate this never-before-solved mystery. The King of Morocco and the French President are “able to take the necessary actions, to make the necessary decisions to get this matter out of the impasse”, underlines the eldest son of Mehdi Ben Barka in an open letter published this Monday, October 28 by the media Orient 21
Bachir Ben Barka mainly talks about the execution “international letters rogatory to Morocco” and the lifting “defense secrecy in France on documents held by the French secret services” while King Mohammed VI received Emmanuel Macron today for a three-day state visit. “Two nations like Morocco and France would grow by fully assuming their responsibilities so that the truth is established in broad daylight and justice is done, pleads Bachir Ben Barka in his letter. Thus, it will be possible to turn the page with dignity.”
A leading figure in the anti-colonialist movement, Mehdi Ben Barka, opponent of King Hassan II, was kidnapped in Paris on October 29, 1965, before being tortured and then assassinated. The case was never fully solved and his body was never found. A first trial in 1967 established that the kidnapping had been planned by the Moroccan secret services with the complicity of police officers and French mobsters. The ten successive investigating judges of the longest investigation ever carried out in France have failed to lift the leaden cover surrounding this state affair.
Source: www.liberation.fr
