The electronic newspaper Hespress obtained photos of King Mohammed VI, accompanied by his two sons, Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan and Princess Lalla Khadija, while they were touring the French capital, Paris, as part of the vacation that members of the royal family spend in this European country, with which Rabat’s relations have returned to their previous state after The latter’s position in support of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara within the framework of the autonomy plan.
The king appeared with his two sons as they took a selfie while he was in good health, especially after the concern that Moroccan citizens had about the health of their king after he appeared using a medical crutch during his reception of French President Emmanuel Macron in Rabat, late last October, due to his suffering from a muscle contraction at the level of… The back is on the right due to compression of the sciatic nerve, according to what a medical source reported to Hespress.
Moroccans are accustomed to seeing King Mohammed VI wandering the streets of France, which he usually prefers to spend his annual vacation, away from the burden of security measures and protocol decrees. This gives many members of the Moroccan community residing in France the opportunity to take a special photo with him.
The Moroccan king wandered the streets of the capital, Paris, during the height of the terrorist attacks that struck deep in France in 2015. This then aroused the admiration of the French citizens who appreciated this step, which the Moroccan king had previously repeated with Tunisia, which he visited in 2014 and wandered the streets of its capital on foot and without heavy security, immediately after the bloody events that this Maghreb country witnessed.
The presence of King Mohammed VI in France comes in the context of the new dynamic experienced by Moroccan-French relations after years of apathy, which ended with the opening of a new page in the relations between these two traditional partners, following the historical position expressed by Paris in its support of the autonomy proposal as the only solution to the artificial dispute over the Sahara. ; This position culminated in French President Emmanuel Macron conducting an official visit to Morocco at the head of a high-level delegation, which witnessed the signing of a number of agreements and strategic partnerships in many fields.
French media reports indicate that Moroccan King Mohammed VI received an official invitation from the French leadership to attend the opening ceremony of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on the seventh of next December, along with a number of officials and world leaders who are expected to attend this event.