French Tourists Stranded in Morocco Plead for Evacuation as Coronavirus Halts Travel

On Saturday, these French tourists who are suffering the consequences of this decision have launched a distress call towards the French president. "Macron, a plane!", they chant at Marrakech airport, reports Le Télégramme. According to the testimony collected on the spot of Audrey, a 29-year-old Breton tourist, the last scheduled flight left at 12:35 pm.

"The airport is packed, people are queuing in front of the airline stands, but they only offer flights from Thursday. We are lost, we are waiting, we want information, they tell us nothing, and what we would like is just for us to be brought back, for planes to leave for France," she laments.

Subsequently, the French embassy in Morocco opened a crisis number to facilitate a possible repatriation of passengers. However, this number is inaccessible. "It doesn’t work!", regrets the tourist from Rennes. According to Ambassador Hélène Le Gal, the line would be "saturated". Another deplorable situation: the closure of the French consulate in Marrakech due to a gathering in front of the building. Yet this consulate was to provide more information to tourists.

"The necessary authorizations for the organization of the return flights will be given. Our embassy in Morocco and the crisis center of the ministry are fully mobilized in the service of our nationals," tweeted Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Enough to reassure the distressed French tourists.