Earthquake in Morocco: solidarity… and embarrassment

2023-09-10 20:13:51

There is compassion, sadness, solidarity… but also a certain embarrassment. Why is Morocco, when the whole world – France in the lead – offering its help, showing itself ready to send rescue workers and a whole range of means, is it slow, even reluctant, to seize outstretched hand ? Thus, this Sunday evening, Rabat had still not officially reacted to Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to deploy “technical and security teams”, taking off “the second” the Moroccan authorities request them.