While
Tunisians, Egyptian, Libyans and Syrians have taken to the streets in waves to
topple their authoritarian regime, Moroccans, mainly in Tangier and Tetouan,
are doing so in troops to topple the French companies that were confided with the mission of handling
their cities water and electricity distribution network. So, how can we boast about our independence while French companies are still holding the reins of
the most vital public services? The answer is always the painful reality that French
occupation left from the door to return from the rear window in the form of giant
companies whose interests have been already guaranteed by a hodgepodge of
opportunists in the Independence party. Veolia, Lydec, RYDAL, Amandes and many
others are actually real vampires that have been plundering and torturing the Moroccans
in a sadistically and with an unconditional aid of a bunch of cousins and
colleagues who were taught and trained in « l’École
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées de
Paris » and other elite schools in France.
Lately,
all Moroccans got shocked when they heard of Sarkosy’s inauguration of the TGV
high speed train production that was assigned to Alstom, another French
multinational company. We all asked sarcastically « are we really in need
to TGV while mules and donkeys are still the main means of transport for aconsiderable
number of Moroccans who also think days and nights before getting into a dilapidated
trains either fearing for their safety or lacking money for the expensive
ticket? ». The truth is that it is France which is in dire need to sign profitable
deals for its hungary and drooling companies and Alstom was the one that was
saved from the crisis that is storming Europe these days and the Moroccans are
the ones who will pay the bill and save France from Greece nightmare. When we
talk about TGV of course we talk also about what follows the manufacturing,
meaning maintenance, renovation,
services, training and above all the employment of the French idles.
I once had the misfortune to meet a French
citizen thinking she was a tourist, but later in the discussion I discovered
that she works for a French company here in Morocco and when I asked her about
her degree, she replied proudly « I am French » as if her nationality
is enough to guarantee her a respected job with a great salary. Actually, Morocco
has become mecca for the unemployed and desperate French people who are seeking
work and the only diploma they may have is their ID card or their red passport.
After having their unemployed people
appointed and settled in good jobs in Morocco, the French government launched
what is now called the “May 31 Circular” demanding a
stricter application of the law regarding the status of foreign students
applying for work permits and demanding a tightening of the number of permits
issued. Accordingly, Several Moroccan graduates students have been catapulted
back to Morocco after being denied a work permit. Therefore, the Moroccan
expiring government that fails to deal with the local unemployment has to find
a way out to absorb a flow of graduates coming from France. Some of these
students have studied in the most pionnering of the French institutions and
imbidded its culture and ideology and went the whole hog. What I am afraid from
is having another lobby, ready more than
the first to secure the French economic existence in Morocco, but we have to
bear in mind that France is still holding the colonizer mentality and Morocco,
as long as being held by those betrayers,
will remain backyard garden.
France
relations with Morocco are governed by interest and nothing but the interest of
its giant companies and its people and Sarkozy who had once the guts to deny the
overthrown Zero Ben Ali's request to host him in France won’t give it a second
thought to throw away the Moroccan students for the prosperity and safety of
his country.
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