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About Hicham Bouchti ARSO
wrote in the
weekly
news of August 2006:
Intrigues and manipulations
Various Moroccan, Spanish and French newspapers, have published an
incredible story full of contradictions, intrigues and manipulations,
touching Spanish-Moroccan and French-Moroccan relations, through the
adventures of a former agent of the Moroccan services.
Hicham Bouchti, a Moroccan citizen, lodged an asylum claim in August
2005 in Spain. This individual had served in the Moroccan auxiliary
forces (in charge of supervising the army) in 2000-2001 and in the
"deuxième bureau" of the Royal Army Forces from 2001 to 2003,
where he was in charge of infiltrating Islamic circles. He was
sentenced to two years’ prison in January 2003 by a military tribunal
for fraud or revelation of military secrets, according to sources. When
he came out of prison, finding no work, he is believed to have decided
to go to Spain. This is the version which he gave to two Moroccan
weeklies, close to the powers, to whom he presented himself in July of
this year on his return to Morocco.
[Maroc-Hebdo
International, No 708]
His request for asylum is refused, but Bouchti is not turned back. He
apparently then met, at a refugee centre in Madrid, Aïcha Ramdane,
the wife of Tamek who put him in touch with Ali Lmrabet, a Spanish
Moroccan journalist with El Mundo. He published an interview with
Bouchti on 3 February 2006, containing revelations, partly already
known, on the king and the royal family.
[El
Mundo, 03.02.06]
Back in Morocco, Bouchti “reveals” in a jumble that according to him
Aïcha and Lmrabet are agents working for Spain, that he was used
by the Spanish secret service to become the spokesman of the movement
of free Moroccan officers and was dragged into a Franco-Spanish
conspiracy to eliminate Lmrabet and Basri. Just that!
[MHI,
No 709]
For Lmrabet and the daily El Mundo,
[see
chap. 9 of Sahara-Info
du 27.07.06] , Bouchti is
a Moroccan agent used both by the Spanish and the French services to
eliminate him. He has support from the highest level in Morocco. The
names of Spanish, French and Moroccan agents are cited by the newspaper.
The court of Casablanca has not bothered Bouchti, but decided instead
on an inquiry into the Spanish services and El Mundo for trying to
destabilise Morocco...
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For the journalist Pedro Canales
[La
Razon, in Sahara-Info, 31.07.06,
chap. 6] the manipulation is the work of a sector of the
Moroccan regime favourable to the interests of France, which wants to
torpedo the influence of Spain in Morocco. For Jeune Afrique, on the
contrary, the French weekly known for its position close to the
Makhzen, the whole affair is due to a manipulation of the pro-Polisario
Spanish press...
[J.A.
30.07.06]