Morocco’s Makhzen Doggedly Bent On Hunting Down Journalist And Former Intelligence Agent Farid Boukas

The Moroccan intelligence services’ dogged hunt for journalist and former agent of the Moroccan Intelligence (DGST) Farid Boukas is continuing with covert attempts to liquidate him because of the mind-boggling secrets he published about the Makhzen and King Mohamed VI himself.
The former agent of the Moroccan intelligence, joined the service in the year 2000 as a designer and editor at the same time, but was surprised when the head in charge of the relationship with the Regional Manager of the Directorate of National Land Control (DST) Haji Abdelkader Bouyali, was recruited by the DGST and was assigned in late 2002 with a mission outside Morocco, followed by several missions to reign in the Islamist groups, the latest of which is the fight against drug trafficking at the international level.
The conflict between Farid Boukas and the director of DGST in the Tangier-Tétouan region then broke out. He was harassed for not obeying his orders. He sent a complaint to King Mohamed VI on February 24, 2003.
48 hours later Farid Boukas was subjected to a kidnapping attempt at 10:30 pm near the barracks of the Red Crescent Street in Tétouan, by three shadowy elements who stripped him of his mobile phone cards.
On January 24, 2006, he was abducted by the Regional Commander of the Royal Gendarmerie. He spent a year in prison in the Moroccan prisons of Kuneitra, then of Tangier and Ouad Lahou until he was set free on 24 January 2007.
In 2007, he tried to enter the city of Ceuta under Spanish authority for medical treatment. He was arrested by the Border Police (RG) for two hours on the grounds that he was being interrogated and then transferred to the state security premises where he was subjected to more than 10 hours of hard questioning.
Afterwards, at 4 pm he was released on condition that he did not leave the city of Tétouan.
One of the officers advised him to leave Morocco, otherwise he could be liquidated, despite the attempt to arrest him again as part of a large hunt-down operation commissioned by Moroccan General Hamidou Anikri.
Farid Boukas, who has been forced into exile in Europe since 2008, refused to renew his passport, which the Spanish Ministry of the Interior officially recognized as a stateless citizen.
In Cairo, in 2013, he published an enlightening book entitled “Morocco with the eyes of a former intelligence agent”.
After the publication of the book, he released numerous press articles and gave several television interviews that brought to light the manifold secrets and raving scandals of the royal palace under the patronage of King Mohamed VI.
Then, he was threatened with pistol fire in 2012 and thereby lodged a formal complaint with the Spanish Civil Guard, but it did not end there.
The Moroccan intelligence services increased their hot pursuit to track him down, after he revealed the involvement of senior Moroccan officials, headed by the Moroccan Monarch in the widespread drug trafficking and smuggling of funds abroad and several other burning issues.
Although Spain granted him protection and officially recognized him as a refugee, this country has a very strong security relationship with Morocco, which posed a real threat to its life and safety, making him flee to Germany for its security and protection.
In late 2017, a Moroccan human rights organization tried to intervene in his case, but it did not find any positive response, which means, according to some confidential information, that Farid Boukas’ case is a personal affair with the royal palace and personally supervised by the King’s scheming adviser namely Fouad Ali El Himma who is in charge of the Kingdom’s security affairs.