Opponents of the resumption of relations between Morocco and Israel are taking legal action. On Monday, December 28, Me. Abderrahman Benameur, on behalf of his client Khalid Soufiani, asked the Court of Cassation to cancel the agreements signed on December 22 between Rabat and Tel Aviv.
“These agreements are illegitimate because they run up against the objectives and ambitions of the Moroccan people who have severed all historical and spiritual links with the Zionist entity,” he explained in a video broadcast by the Moroccan Observatory against the standardization.
Me. Benameur expressed the wish that “the Court of Cassation assumes its responsibilities and declares the signed agreements null and void” between Morocco and Israel. For his part, President Abderrahim Ben Barka believes that this appeal is being presented “on behalf of the majority of Moroccans who have not been able to express their position on this subject”.
This is not the first time that Moroccans have sought judicial intervention against prominent Israeli figures. In April 2015, a group of lawyers called for the arrest of Shimon Pères for “war crimes”. The former Israeli president was then preparing to visit Morocco, as part of the international conference organized by the Clinton Foundation in Marrakech in May of the same year. A trip canceled at the last minute.
The same group of lawyers had filed similar claims against Amir Peretz, former defense minister in 2006 and Samy Tordjman, former head of ground operations during the war on Gaza in 2014. Both are Israelis. of Moroccan origin. Moroccan justice has so far failed to respond to these requests.
