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VEND. 15, SAM. 16 & DIM. 17 SEPTEMBRE 2023 - N°6599 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
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On Tuesday afternoon, the Sovereign visited the Mohammed VI University Hospital in Marrakech, where he checked on the health status of the injured victims of the earthquake. The King also donated blood

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Editorial Words Khalid BELYAZID

A FTER the earthquake, the quake of words. Even a natural disaster, are distorting mirrors. The other earthquake of words concerns our own
with dramatic consequences, can be straddled by those who make a charlatans, on social media, whose algorithms favor negative and emotional
living from the buzz. Our authorities and troops are still mobilized to ideas. An «influencer» crying in his or her living room about the fate of an
bury, rescue, and re-establish roads, while foreign television channels and « abandoned» village can shake thousands of sincere souls. An NGO leader
newspapers, particularly French, have already set up courts to judge the « can avail of the disaster victims’ cause, with humanitarianism becoming a
country’s «incompetence «. Under the guise of humanity, everyone flaunts springboard for fame, worldliness. and international aid. Many people can
their contempt for Morocco, a country that normally generates the interest exploit the emotions of Moroccans, their sincerity to help, and create a mess
of French investors or the sympathy of its population. The earthquake repre- of foodstuffs, which can be collected, directed to still-blocked mountain
sents, at last, an opportunity to criticize, to extrapolate diplomatic quarrels, to roads, and left to rot. Fortunately, an official fund was quickly set up to
settle scores with a political system, the only one holding out in the region, collect donations. What remains to be done is to funnel aid and guide all the
to film the worst and the best, to gather testimonies from the locals, and other spontaneous initiatives before they, too, are won over by doubt and
to denigrate live. It is their business model. In fact, the fault lies with the slander. And when this happens, it will last for months on end. Because even
Moroccans, who only see themselves through these French media which earthquakes of words have their aftershocks.o