Consul of Morocco in Algerian city of Oran leaves Algeria Offensive Remarks

A Moroccan diplomat at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Algiers and Rabat has departed Algeria at the country’s call, a spokesman for the presidency announced on Tuesday. “The consul of Morocco has left the country at Algeria’s request,” spokesman Mohand Oussaid Belaid told a news conference, referring to the consul of Morocco in Algeria’s second city Oran. Last month Algeria convoked Morocco’s ambassador after a video on social media showed a man, presented as the consul, calling Algeria an “enemy” country. The man was addressing Moroccans complaining about being stranded in Algeria due to coronavirus travel restrictions.
Belaid said the consul’s “attitude was not surprising because he is an officer of the Moroccan intelligence services”. According to the Algerian news website TSA, the consul returned home last Thursday on a Royal Air Maroc flight that was repatriating Moroccans stranded in Algeria.