Mehdi Ben Barka's son asks Mohammed VI and Emmanuel Macron to advance the investigation into his father's disappearance

Bachir Ben Barka, the son of Moroccan opponent Mehdi Ben Barka, asked Monday October 28 in a letter to Mohammed VI and Emmanuel Macron “to make the necessary decisions” to elucidate the disappearance of his father in 1965 in Paris, during the visit of the French president to Morocco.

The King of Morocco and the French President are “able to take the necessary actions, to make the necessary decisions to get this matter out of the impasse”underlines the eldest son of Mr. Ben Barka in an open letter published by the media Orient XXI. Bachir Ben Barka mainly mentioned the execution “international letters rogatory to Morocco” and the lifting “defense secrecy in France on documents held by the French secret services”.

Leading figure of the anti-colonialist movement, Mehdi Ben Barka, opponent of Hassan II, king of Morocco from 1961 to 1999, was kidnapped in Paris on October 29, 1965. The case has never been fully elucidated and his body has not been never been found. A first trial in 1967 established that the kidnapping had been planned by the Moroccan secret services with the complicity of police officers and French mobsters. The ten successive investigating judges of the longest investigation ever carried out in France have failed to lift the leaden cover surrounding this state affair.

“Two nations like Morocco and France would grow by fully assuming their responsibilities so that the truth is established in broad daylight and justice is done”pleads Bachir Ben Barka in his letter. “Thus, it will be possible to turn the page with dignity”he adds.