Moroccan Lawyers Protest Ex-Algerian Officer’s Call for Terrorism Against Morocco

"Move the war to Moroccan territory to sow chaos and terror in Casablanca, in Marrakech. If you want independence, you must die as martyrs," Mokhtar Said Mediouni said in a statement on Al Hayat TV. He called on Polisario members to commit terrorist acts in central Morocco, reports Hespress.

While denouncing these extremely serious remarks, the Moroccan Lawyers’ Club has decided to "prepare a motion aimed at condemning the discourse of incitement to terrorism uttered by the Polisario and military personnel close to the Algerian regime, while denouncing their rapprochement with the Iranian regime," explains the Club.

In this matter, "the Algerian Penal Code in its Article 87 Bis 4 condemns and punishes the glorification of terrorism, Article 87 bis 4 provides that anyone who glorifies, encourages or finances, by any means whatsoever, the acts referred to in this section (acts of terrorism) is punished by a term of imprisonment of five (5) to ten (10) years and a fine of one hundred thousand (100,000) DA to five hundred thousand (500,000) DA," recalls Hespress.

The Lawyers’ Club in Morocco believes that "Algeria’s unilateral rupture of diplomatic relations between the two countries will not facilitate the application of these provisions, especially since those who glorify these acts are close to the Algerian regime". Paragraph 2 of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides that "any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law." It is on the basis of all this that the club has decided to turn to the DECT, since the United Nations Security Council has looked into incitement to terrorism in two of its resolutions: 1373 in 2001, and 1624 in 2005.