Morocco/Islamism: Does the European Commission try to hide the possible Islamist nature of the murder of an European diplomat and his wife, wildly slaughtered in Rabat?
Crime motivated by a desire for gain or assassination with Islamist connotation? The wild assassination of Alessandro Missir di Lusignano, head of the Political section of the delegation of the European Commission in Morocco, and his Belgian wife, Ariane de Locht, causes not only stupor, but raises also a lot of questions because of the many remaining zones of shadow. Anyway, the facts are established. While returning of a dinner, in the night of Sunday to Monday, the couple was surprised in its villa of Rabat by one or more "robbers", who stole several objects as well as the car of the Belgian-Italian couple. The diplomat and his wife were then cut the throat of in front of their four children, old from 4 to 10 years. According to the official thesis, this was "simply" a crime motivated by a desire for gain.
Nevertheless, the official declarations made by the Moroccan police, which supports the thesis of a burgling which would have degenerated, and by the European Union, clash with what we learn in addition. If for the Italian press as a whole, there is not a doubt that this double murder is of Islamist nature, it is not the point of view of the European Commission which, officially and in-house, obviously tends to minimize the range of the facts.
Officially first of all, the European Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, split yesterday explicit official statement in which she underlined the villainous nature of the facts and explained why it is definitely not a religious crime.
However, it got back to us that within the Commission the heads of unit vigorously invited their collaborators not to communicate on this subject, not to operate ties with the recent declarations of the pope and, especially, not to evoke the possibility of a crime with religious connotation. According to other inside information from the Commission, the children, who attended the whole scene, would have seen the assassin, half insane, vociferate and call upon the sky. They moreover would have heard him howling "Allah Ô Akhbar" when slitting the throat of their parents. One will in addition underline that the assassination was not necessary to the theft and that blood crimes, in particular those against foreigners, are extremely rare in Morocco. This sad business leaves without voice, all the more so since Alessandro Missir, recognized expert of Turkey, was known and appreciated for its peaceful, even oecumenical positions and was in favour of the dialogue between the people.
In addition, this story reminds us the case of this young 17 year old French, Benjamin Vanseveren, stabbed in February 2005, by Abdelilah Al Meziane, who had tackled a group of tourists visiting the Médina of Fès. At that time the prosecutor had considered that this crime had been committed by an "unbalanced drug addict", a statement that led the family of the young boy to estimate that one had sought it to hush up a murder which smacked of Islamism. Al Meziane had closer and closer to an Islamist preacher and to the group that this last animated. Is this still the case today? |