
EasyJet Operates 32 Flights to Repatriate 6,000 French Tourists from Morocco
The Moroccan authorities, in collaboration with the EasyJet company, have made 32 flights available to French tourists stranded in Morocco for their repatriation.

The Moroccan authorities, in collaboration with the EasyJet company, have made 32 flights available to French tourists stranded in Morocco for their repatriation.

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.

Franc-Comtois are stranded, like thousands of European tourists, in the airports of Agadir, Marrakech, Casablanca or Rabat, since the closure of air links imposed by Morocco to limit the spread of the new coronavirus.

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.

The coronavirus has reached the Moroccan consulate in Colombes. Two local agents have shown symptoms of the disease.

Moroccans residing in France now have a monitoring center at the embassy and all consulates to respond to their requests related to coronavirus.

Marwan Muhammad, former executive director of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), was the victim of a burglary. On his Facebook account, he publishes images showing the extent of the damage.

The decision of the Moroccan government to suspend all air and sea links between Morocco and France, in order to curb the Coronavirus epidemic, took the nationals of the two countries by surprise.

After spending a month in Morocco , a resident of the Californie neighborhood in Jarville returned from vacation to find that his apartment had been transformed into a drug dealing spot by drug traffickers.

After several talks with the French authorities, Morocco has decided to authorize flights to allow French nationals to return home.

The suspension of air and sea links to France by Morocco due to the spread of the coronavirus is already having its effects. Hundreds of French tourists are stranded at Marrakech airport.

Abdel Ait-Omar, first deputy mayor of the town of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, a French commune located in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the Île-de-France region, was indicted this Wednesday evening after spending 36 hours in custody.