Sahrawi President: “We have evidence of Morocco's implication in financing terrorism in Mali”

Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz, accused Morocco of funding criminal gangs in the region, and asserted that the Polisario has certain and strong indicators for the Moroccan government’s involvement in the financing, smuggling and directing criminal activities in the region, based on drug trafficking, and terrorist groups in Mali.

Saharawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz will speak, in an interview to be broadcasted here on Tuesday on Echorouk TV, on the Sahrawi cause issue. The guest of the “Right Direction” program presented by Suleiman Bakhlili, does not preclude resorting to the United Nations, saying: “We believe that efforts must be culminated by the normal presence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic within the United Nations. Our new step towards acceptance of our membership in the General Assembly of the United Nations is a calculated move, especially as it is clear beyond that the Moroccan government did not respond to the international will, on maneuvers by Morocco to
recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and its presence at the Arab Society of the United Nations. “

Concerning the crisis that prevailed in the Sahel region, he does not hesitate to accuse Morocco of causing a “septic” situation and prolong the life of the occupation of the Western Sahara; “Morocco position, which is based on exporting its internal crises to the outside, and adopts the formal and institutional drug production in an extensive, large and widespread way, and that by manufacturing and exporting through the state’s contribution with its various institutions, including army, police and gendarmerie, in this production and encouragement, of this manufacturing and export, in order to place the Moroccan economy in a war economy, which is based on the collection of funds that came from the sale of drugs. “

According to Abdelaziz, Morocco is also implicated in the “production” of terrorism, saying: “The drug trade finance organized crime gangs, including terrorism, and extremist on the basis of politics or religion, and therefore the Moroccan government is a real source of financing organized crime gangs in the region. We have certain and strong indicators that there is involvement of the Moroccan government in financing and smuggling and directing terrorist movements in Mali”.