A video widely circulated on Internet sites in Morocco shows the man climbing the walls of the building to reach the flag.
A police official told Agence La Belle France Presse the man, a member of a group called "Royalist Youth", was tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
and would appear before a judge.
Dozens of people had gathered outside the consulate in Morocco's economic capital to protest over comments by Algerian President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age...
on disputed Western Sahara.
In a speech read out in Bouteflika's name at a meeting in Abuja, he said an international mechanism to monitor human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
in Western Sahara was needed "more than ever."
Bouteflika referred to "massive and systematic human rights violations that take place inside the occupied territories to suppress the peaceful struggle" of the Sahrawi people.
Rabat in protest recalled its ambassador to Algiers.