The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has promised a global repatriation mechanism for French citizens stranded in certain countries, including Morocco, following the suspension of flights decided by these host countries, due to the spread of the coronavirus.
Funeral washing and repatriation of people who died of COVID-19 are prohibited in France. This decision is in line with the preventive measures against the spread of the virus.
Repatriation flights for foreign tourists stranded in Morocco are authorized until next Sunday.
On Wednesday, March 18 at the Marrakech airport, as in Agadir or Tangier, it was a flurry of activity. 34 residents of Oyonnax, after a long wait, were able to take off for France. They are part of the 20,000 tourists surprised by the closure of Morocco’s borders due to the global health crisis.
Since Morocco has decided to suspend air traffic to and from its territory, hundreds of Danes find themselves stranded, with no possibility, for the moment, of returning to Denmark.
Faced with the latest developments related to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, France has chartered around forty planes to ensure the first phase of the repatriation of its nationals still in Morocco.
Special flights to repatriate stranded European tourists in Morocco. This measure was taken after Morocco suspended all its international flights with the world between Saturday and Sunday, particularly between France and Spain, to limit the spread of COVID-19. It should be noted that many Moroccans are also stuck in airports in France and Spanish ports.
On Friday, March 6, 2020, the United Nations Committee against Torture ordered Belgium to provide one of its citizens, a 25-year-old Belgian woman detained in the Al-Roj camp in Syria held by Kurdish forces, with the necessary documents for her repatriation.
The UN Committee against Torture was seized on Wednesday by five French jihadists sentenced to death in Iraq for their consular protection and for their repatriation to France.
A judicial investigation has been opened for "murder", nearly two weeks after the murder of the young Moroccan, Nabil, killed by a gunshot in the back, on Friday, January 24, 2020 in Caen.
Abderrahim Lhlali and Mohamed Ozdemir, both lawyers for ten children of Islamic State fighters, have found a strategy to force the Belgian state to repatriate their clients. They have taken the resolution to send a bailiff to the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs.
Morocco must consider making a decision on the repatriation of the many Moroccan women from the terrorist organization Daesh, held in Turkey and Syria. The families of these detainees are calling on the Moroccan authorities to speed up the procedure for the return to the homeland of these women who "would no longer pose any danger".