By Jamal Saidi
By Jamal Saidi
Morocco World News
Casablanca, September 4, 2012
Lahcen Eddaoudi, minister of Higher Education and Training and Scientific Research, said that any student who carries weapons on university campuses will be expelled, according to the daily Almassae.
The minister emphasized during an interview with a private radio station two days ago that “from now on, no group, be it from the south or the north, Arab or Amazigh, can impose by force the postponement of exams and courses.”
“The groups can convince students to boycott the courses by way of dialogue, for the era of violence is over,” he added.
He stressed that the universities are expected to ask for the intervention of the authorities once there is a threat to the normal functioning of the exams.
The minister pointed out that a new article will be added to the internal law of the universities in order to dismiss from school any student who carries cold weapons.
Moroccan universities have witnessed repeated violence between students who belong to opposing ideological views such as the Islamists, Marxists, Sahraouis and Amazigh.
In 2007, a student died during bloody confrontations at the college of Science and Technology in Errachidiya between the faction of the Amazigh cultural movement and that of Marxists.
