Moroccan Family Pleads with King Mohammed VI to Repatriate Son’s Body from Bosnia

17 May 2020 – byKamal · 1 min read

The family of a Moroccan national, who died in Bosnia, has made a desperate appeal to King Mohammed VI, in order to be able to repatriate the body of their son and bury him in his country of origin.

According to the statements of his mother, relayed by the site Al3omk, the 28-year-old man, who was unemployed, had left Morocco heading for Europe, in the hope of improving his social and financial situation.

After illegally leaving for Turkey, the man had managed to settle in Bosnia, after a long journey in Greece, where the state of health emergency did not allow him to find a job. He left this world in dramatic conditions, his father confided, without however giving details on the causes of death.

Last March, the Turkish president had announced the opening of the borders with Greece. More than 10,000 migrants, including about a hundred Moroccans, had headed towards Greece before being pushed back by the police and the army.