Youn and Samira died during their honeymoon in Marrakech
This French couple got married a few days ago. Youn Boukhtam, 26 years old, and Samira Ghanmi, 22, were on their honeymoon in Marrakech when the earthquake struck the city. The bodies of these two volunteers from the Al Badr mosque, in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), were found on Saturday in a site near Marrakech, where only debris from the construction remained. The two newlyweds, originally from Oujda, were buried on Monday.
In Meaux, the news devastated the friends of the couple “very invested in the life of the mosque”.
“300,000 people no longer have a home, a third of whom are children,” warns Unicef
“A race against time, even against death, is launched. ” On franceinfo This Tuesday, Adeline Hazan, president of Unicef France, an ociation deployed in Morocco, warned of the humanitarian emergency.
“There are currently around 300,000 people who are affected, that is to say who no longer have a home, who are sleeping on the street. And among these people, there are around 100,000 children since there are a third of children in Morocco. 100,000 children today find themselves without a home, without a school, without a hospital,” she explains.
Paris tries to quell the controversy over aid to Morocco
The head of French diplomacy, Catherine Colonna, sought Monday to nip in the bud the controversy over the reasons why Morocco did not take up France’s offer of aid after the devastating earthquake. “It’s a bad quarrel, a very inappropriate quarrel,” she said. With this refusal to grasp – for the moment – the outstretched hand, King Mohammed VI however, sends a clear signal of persistent anger towards Paris. Our article to understand the quarrel between the two countries.