2023-09-01 15:45:31
RACHEL VILLACIJA
Correspondent
Pars
Updated Friday, September 1, 2023 – 15:45
Two other Franco-Moroccan citizens were involved in the incident and one of them is in jail.
The border between the two countries (Sadia in Morocco and Marsa ben M’hidi in Algeria).GETTY
France are investigating the death of a French citizen, whose family is originally from Morocco, in an incident that occurred earlier this week on the border between this country and Algeria. supposedly the young I was shot by the Algerian coast guards when he was sailing with a jet ski, with three other friends, in waters near the city of Sellingon the border, according to reports in the French press and the Spanish news agency EFE.
In the accident, which remains to be clarified, three other Moroccan citizens were also involved, two of them also with French nationality. He ministry of foreign affairs reported the death of “one of the citizens” and the incarceration of another compatriot in the country.
“The crisis and support center of the Ministry and our ambassadors in Morocco and Algeria is in direct contact with the families of our citizens, to whom we offer our full support. We have expressed our condolences to them,” said a Foreign Affairs spokesman.
The ministry claims to be in direct contact with the Moroccan and Algerian authorities and the incident has been notified to the Prosecutor for investigation: “It is up to the courts to clarify the circumstances of this tragedy,” says the ministry, which has not detailed the circumstances of the accident.
The deceased has 29 years old and was born in the French town of Montfermeil, according to information from EFE. His corpse was recovered by the Royal Moroccan Navy. The rest of those involved returned to Moroccan territory and have assured that they were shot without warning previa.
“We have lost, but we have continued until we have found ourselves in Algeria. We knew we were there because a black Algerian zodiac came towards us. Then they started to zigzag, as if they wanted to make us overturn“, the older brother of the deceased has pointed out in statements to the Moroccan press, which collects Le Figaro.
This incident further strained relations between Rabat and Algiersbroken in 2021 after the dispute over the Shara Occidental, territory occupied for the most part by Morocco. Although at the moment no country has reacted officially, when asked by the local press, the Moroccan government spokesman, Mustapha Batas, has limited himself to saying that it is “a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of the judiciary.”
A former colonial power, France maintains strong ties with Algeria, which are also not without tension. The last focus was a few months ago, when Algiers called its ambassador in Paris for consultation after the country welcomed the French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui, arrested in Algiers and who had fled to Tunisia.
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