The new Australian Ambassador to Morocco is Michael Cutts. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced his appointment in a press release on Friday.
A man was sentenced, last Monday, to 8 years in prison, with a fine of 2,000 dirhams, for acts of violence against an Australian expatriate, seconded to the American Cultural Center in Fez .
Among the foreigners who find themselves stranded in Morocco since the authorities decided to close the borders, there are Australians. It is therefore to reassure them and show them the proximity of their country, that the ambassador, in a video broadcast on the Facebook page of the Embassy, addressed them.
In Australia, two men who burned down a mosque were sentenced on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, to 22 years in prison. An act inspired by the "Islamic State" (IS) group, to terrorize the Shiite community.