Morocco Sends Security Forces to Aid Qatar’s World Cup Preparations

During the months of November and December, the country will host around 1.5 million supporters from all continents, a flow of people equivalent to 50% of the country’s population, reports Jeune Afrique, specifying that this constitutes a major challenge for the organizers.

To this end, the Qatari authorities have requested the assistance of Morocco in terms of intelligence and security. A request to which Morocco has agreed.

In this context, the Director General of the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) and the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), Abdellatif Hammouchi, carried out a working mission at the end of May in Qatar, at the end of which a cooperation agreement was signed between the two countries, which provides for the sending of several thousand agents to participate in the security coverage of the event.

Morocco had participated in the work of a conference entitled "The Last Mile of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar", held on May 22 and 23 in Doha, which brought together the security representatives of the 32 qualified countries, it is recalled.