Rabat – German immigration officers detained Moroccan MPs travelling to Poland to attend COP24.
The Frankfurt airport authorities said the MPs did not have a visa.
The airport officials detained Casablanca’s Mayor Abdelaziz El Omari and MPs Mohamed Moubdii (MP party), Mohamed Salem Benmassoud and Amal Maysara (PJD), Abdelilah El Mouhajiri and Ahmed Touiji (WFP), Ahmed Touimi (PI), and Noureddine Lazrak (RNI) for over five hours at Frankfurt airport.
Morocco World News (MWN) contacted RNI’s communications officer Jawad Chahbaouy, who was aware of the incident. He gave MWN RNI member Lazrak’s phone number, but he was unreachable. The Moroccan embassy in Germany called upon Morocco and Germany’s foreign ministries to get the MPs released.
The German immigration officers took photographs of the Moroccan MPs before allowing them to leave the country.
A member of the delegation told a Moroccan news outlet that “the MPs “were not aware Germany does not recognize their official passports until German authorities denied access to the airport.”
