2023-04-30 18:30:00
“Morocco is a dictatorship like the Franco regime was. The head of state who is the king holds all the powers. It is a country where there is no freedom. But there is nothing to discuss regarding it, just read the Moroccan constitution. When, in 1999, Mohammed VI acceded to the throne, there was no journalist or person imprisoned for questions of freedom of expression. Today there are a few, especially three influential journalists who have been sentenced to between 5 and 15 years in prison,” Cembrero said in an interview with The province.
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The journalist claims that he has been the victim of judicial “harassment” by the Moroccan authorities since 2014, and believes he knows the main reason. “In 2012, I started saying that the king of Morocco was never or rarely in his country. I think that pissed them off a lot. Morocco has a serious problem with the absence of the king…”, he explains, recalling having already been brought to justice four times by Morocco and having “never lost a case”. These repetitive trials have caused him a lot of damage professionally, he says.
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Cembrero is convinced that Morocco has an “influence over the whole of the Spanish state, but particularly over the socialist wing of the government”. “Morocco, with the instruments of pressure at its disposal, has obtained enormous concessions in terms of foreign policy, particularly on Western Sahara, in exchange for practically nothing”, he explains, noting that Spain, she obtained “the reduction of illegal immigration, particularly in the Canary Islands. But if Morocco gets angry, overnight it can reopen the tap”.
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The Spanish journalist believes that the Moroccan authorities, “even in their wildest dreams”, do not think of claiming the Canary Islands. What the kingdom claims, on the other hand, to achieve its territorial integrity, is “the Sahara and its waters” to the south, and “Ceuta, Melilla and all the rocks” to the north, he analyzes. Regarding the rearmament of Morocco, Cembrero stresses that he is targeting Algeria and the Polisario Front and that the kingdom “continues to have a defense budget and means much lower than those of Spain”.
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