Controversial Rapper Booba’s Casablanca Concert Canceled Amid Political Pressure

Former director of the weekly newspaper Le Journal Hebdomadaire in Morocco, Aboubakr Jamai currently heads the international relations program at the American University Institute (IAU College) in Aix-en-Provence. The former Moroccan journalist says he has "doubts about the real extent of the boycott campaign that allegedly led the authorities to cancel the (Booba) concert." According to him, this affair "would deserve a thorough investigation", because according to his sources, "this popular outrage has been largely amplified by the Moorishs, a very pro-regime Twitter group with 51 million subscribers, presenting themselves as ultra-patriots and nationalists".

"I don’t read the Booba boycott as religious conservatism. It’s rather the mirror of an ultra-patriotic atmosphere, which serves to conceal the governance flaws of the Moroccan regime. There has been a rather deleterious atmosphere towards the rest of the world in Morocco