Moroccan Police Invite Ivorian Student to Share Ramadan Meal in Casablanca

As Yves Christian M’Pouet, a former Ivorian student at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Maroc), was going to a pharmacy, he heard: "Come, my brother." "A quick glance across the street, and I noticed that a policeman had just called me," he recounts in a post published on Linkedin.

"So I cross the road, preparing my administrative documents in case of a check," he continues. But he will be surprised to find that there was no check, nor any warning about the curfew imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the kingdom. The police officers simply invited him to break the fast with them. "Surprised, I politely refuse, but he insists and his colleagues next to him are already preparing me a place. The rest, you know... Tea, fritters, dates, quiche, etc."

The young man says he is happy to have lived this moment with the police officers. "I thanked them from the bottom of my heart... and I left smiling," adds Yves. "This is also the face of South-South cooperation, the acceptance of the other in his differences, no racism and above all the promotion of living together," he stressed, wishing "Ramadan Mubarak to the entire Moroccan people and to all Muslims around the world".