Elderly Man with Health Issues Stranded in Morocco During Lockdown, Family Seeks Repatriation

She, her brothers and sisters are anxious at the idea of knowing him all alone there, without any family member. "He has heart disease, diabetes, he is a high-risk person. And then, he is depressed, alone every day, especially during Ramadan," she confides to the newspaper Vosges Matin. She and the other family members have maintained contact with their father. "It does him good. But the worst thing is that for now, he doesn’t know that his flight on the 14th is canceled. We’re afraid of his reaction, that he won’t be able to handle it."

The family then decides to take certain steps to facilitate his repatriation. Saïda, Mohamed Nourani’s other daughter, addresses a letter to deputy M’jid El Guerrab, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, to inform him of her father’s situation. A request for repatriation has also been filed with the French consulate in Morocco.

"They told us that the file had been forwarded to the competent services. We don’t know any more. But my father, this is his home. He worked for more than 40 years in Remiremont. He has to come back."