By Larbi Arbaoui
By Larbi Arbaoui
Morocco World News
Tinejdad, August 3, 2012
Patrick Ramael, the French judge in charge of investigating the case of Mehdi Ben Berka, asked British police to arrest Hosni Benslimane, the head of Morocco’s Olympic committee, in relation to the 1965 kidnapping and assignation of the Moroccan opposition leader in Paris.
Hosni Benslimane, Lieutenant General and Commander of the Royal Gendarmerie, was in the British capital to attend the London Olympics.
The French judge Patrick Ramael, who was assigned to the case of the disappearance of the Moroccan leftist Mehdi Ben Barka, has for long been trying to hear Benslimane, along with three other ex-soldiers, about this mysterious kidnapping. In 2007, he issued an arrest warrant against Benslimane, but the warrant is no longer in force, since it was not endorsed by the French persecutors nor by Interpol, reported BBC on Friday.
The French judge seeks to question Benslimane, along with three other ex-soldiers, about the kidnapping of Ben Barka in October 1965 in Paris.
The exact circumstances of Ben Berka’s disappearance are still a mystery to the public and his body has never been found.
The family of the disappeared has for long demanded that the Moroccan and French authorities unveil the truth over the circumstances that surrounded the assassination of Ben Berka, who was one of the founding fathers of the leftist movement in Morocco and a prominent figure of the Third World socialist movement.
