Moroccan King Mourns Passing of Beloved Actor Mustapha Dassoukine

In this message, the Moroccan sovereign emphasizes that he learned with great emotion and deep affliction the news of the passing of the late Mustapha Dassoukine.

On this painful occasion, King Mohammed VI expresses to the members of the deceased’s family and, through them, to all his admirers and friends and to his great artistic family, his heartfelt condolences and sincere feelings of compassion following the disappearance of a pioneering and creative artist-actor, with great human qualities, who enriched the national artistic scene for more than four decades with distinguished comedies, plays and television and film works, which earned him a respectable place in the hearts of lovers of the art of comedy in the Kingdom.

The King says he shares the family’s feelings of the deceased following this cruel loss, the will of the Almighty being inexorable, imploring the Almighty to grant patience and comfort to the family of the deceased, to generously reward him for the praiseworthy services he rendered in the service of his art and his Homeland, and to accept him among the righteous faithful.