I hope he is not the thug's son of the ex minister of communication who hit a policeman. Not again please.

Morocco is becoming more crime ridden but at least for now no Guns and AK 47 . Just imagine how bad Morocco would be if guns were in the streets , it could be one of the highest crime rates in the world , I would assume if guns were in the streets of Morocco , 12,000 to 20,000 murders a year but thank GOD for now this is not the case , for now the latest stats that I heard so far is about 700 murders , it is not good but compared to many countries in the world it is still a low rate

Those of you who listen to sheikh Imam & Ahmed Fouad Najm songs
'Ghabah kilabha Diabah' and 'كلب الست'
chaykh.imam.free.fr/kalb set.html
will notice that 100 years has past with 3 constitutions and yet nothing has changed in Morocco. It is the contry where 'La loi du plus fort' rules.
How on earth they would expect 'les MREs' to return to morocco?? no thanks that is all what I have to say.

UNITED NATIONS, May 23 -- Spain's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Gonzalo de Benito on Wednesday at the UN gave different answers in Spanish then French about Western Sahara and UN envoy Christopher Ross.

Inner City Press asked Gonzalo de Benito about Morocco's recent call that Ross be removed as mediator. He replied that Spain was involved, as part of the Group of Friends on Western Sahara, in negotiating and finalizing the recent UN Security Council resolution on Western Sahara. He added that the resolution expresses confidence in Ross, a confidence now publicly not shared by Morocco.

But when asked by a Moroccan reporter to repeat his answer in French, Gonzalo de Benito discussed the resolution but omitted the reference to confidence in Ross; he said Spain had met with a Moroccan minister on Friday and followed the issue closely, hoping for a solution.

www.innercitypress.com/.../

Probably the Police Chief got his own medicine. But then again he is supervising something that is "haram" in a country that is Muslim. This Festival Mawazine perform every year, and other such events are haram. Some will say we balance the worldly pleasures with the annual Quran reciting competition in the month of Ramadhan.

We have RAM and other industries maintaining its monopoly of crap services, why? Because someONE is pulling strings to maintain that tight grip on power, until we have a regime change and the king has left the town it will be more of the same to come.

Well Aziz, I am sure that you can provide countless of anecdotal evidence about abuse of power in the US, although, you'd be hard-pressed to name one involving a chief of police beating. Nevertheless, when these things happen in the West, they are the exception and NOT the rule.
In Morocco, we call them Tuesday.
Thanks to MBT for providing comic relief with his holly view of the festival.I would have taken him more seriously if he suggested that the new Islamic government would take some kind of action. I would even accept a cosmetic one. Show some life!

Does the Police Chief have no honour, he should resign. I suppose it is the hazard of the job that you will be humiliated by the paymaster, it is part and parcel of the jobs in Morocco, though not exclusively.

Mr Mufid has no credibility whatsoever and he deserves what he got!

RABAT, Morocco — Morocco's glittering Mawazine international music festival wraps up this weekend with performances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, after nine days of showcasing the North African kingdom's cool factor — even as dissident Moroccan artists are imprisoned for their anti-establishm ent sentiments.

Just a week before the festival began, Human Rights Watch slammed Morocco for sentencing a rapper to a year in prison for lyrics deemed insulting to police — a common theme in rap music elsewhere in the world.
"Morocco hosts one famous international music festival after another each spring, but meanwhile it imprisons one of its own singers solely because of lyrics and images that displease the authorities," Sarah Leah Whitson, Mideast director of the group said in a statement. "Morocco should be known as a haven for world music, not for locking up singers with a political message."
Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat, known as El-Haqed, or "The Enraged" was convicted on May 11 of "showing contempt" to public servants with his song "Dogs of the State" about police corruption. He is known for his political activism and vitriolic songs attacking social injustice, the monarchy and corruption.
Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat performs during a demonstration in Casablanca on March 18. He was charged on March 30 with insulting public authorities in a song that was posted on YouTube.
A week later, dissident poet Youssef Belkhdim was convicted of attacking police — a charge he denies — at a sit-in he organized in support of Belghouat and sentenced to two years in prison.

The two men belonged to Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement that last year brought tens of thousands into the streets protesting corruption and calling for political reform.
The extravagant sums spent on the Mawazine have been a mainstay of the movement's slogans. Festival organizers maintain that the Mawazine's estimated $7 million price tag is worth it because it improves Morocco's image abroad and gives people at home access to music from around the world. The festival is funded largely by corporate sponsors with strong ties to the state.
"It's a celebration. It's a celebration of the city, a celebration of Morocco and it reflects a bit Morocco's good life to the world," said program director Mahmoud Lemseffer. "It is a vehicle to present the image of our country, of its hospitality and tolerance."
Tens of thousands attend each of the festival's eight venues which present Arabic music, Moroccan music, music from sub-Saharan Africa as well as international acts, which this year included Evanescence, the Scorpions, Gloria Gaynor, Nigel Kennedy and Jimmy Cliff
Most of the acts have free sections open to the public and on Tuesday, families strolling along Rabat's Bouregreg river stopped to listen to Beninian songstress Angelique Kidjo belt out classics from South African diva Mariam Makebe and talk about the struggle against apartheid.
But for critics, there is irony in punishing artists at home while hosting international ones known for their support of freedom of expression. Lenny Kravitz, for instance, has striven in song after song to confront America's tortured attitude about race.
"I think that people should really say what they feel — everybody has the right to speak their mind, you see how things change in places where people were once condemned," said Kravitz at a press conference Thursday when asked about politics in music. "When I was in Brazil a couple of years ago, I was talking with (musician and activist) Caetano Veloso who dealt with that same thing, who did jail time — and now he has made a difference."
Salif Traore of the Ivorian band Magic System said that for African artists, speaking truth to power and freedom of expression is what their music is all about.
"We in Africa, we say that artists, musicians and singers are the eyes, ears, and mouths of the people," he told The Associated Press, when asked about his views on the El-Haqed case.
Rachid el-Belghiti, who heads a national anti-Mawazine campaign, also contests the government's assertion that it's supporting culture in Morocco with this festival, countering that it's really just about making the country look good abroad.
He said the Mawazine, which is run by a close confidant of King Mohammed VI, eats up the lion's share of corporate sponsorship so that little is left for other festivals around the country.
As millions are being spent to lure in big name acts, local theaters and dance schools around the country are closing down because of a lack of funding.
"A country which puts its artists in prison simply for expressing themselves with their voice or their instruments cannot pretend to support culture," he said. "That's impossible."

Let me sum it for you ladies and gentlemen. Every Moroccan young and old has been asking for El Himma to leave. What does M6 do? He made him the Architect of Moroccan internal affairs. So much for the king of the poor. A slap or even a spit in the face of an entire population.
Those in charge, have zero respect for their subjects, Hassan II never had, in a way it's like father like son.
Let's not be surprised of what happened to this officer, these things have been going on for decades, it's just now we have people writing/bloging about it. Remember that these officers are no angels either, they are the one who execute the injustice imposed on the Moroccan people.