By refusing to present her passport and to tell her nationality during the control on borders, Aminatou Haïdar, a pro-polisario militant but paid from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just set a precedent which is harmful to the relations -already in tension- between Morocco and Algeria. There is, as a matter of course, no doubt that Algeria who has commended this operation to Mme Haïdar, appointing two foreign journalists with her in order to try to get covered by the media an act constituting an obvious violation of all the international laws concerning the crossing of air-land-sea borders. In fact, by refusing to tell her nationality as well as her destination, the pro-polisario activist has voluntarily violated the sovereignty of the Sherifian Kingdom. Yet, the sovereignty, as everybody knows that, is on the basis of the international legal order, a concept that even the most officious law professor in the Algerian regime cannot contradict . It is precisely here that lays the problem, as beyond a simple quarrel about the refusal to tell her identity and nationality, the precedent created by Aminatou Haïdar raises the problem of the behaviour to be adopted in front of this kind of  provocation. Morocco has just sent a strong signal: we can not compromise one’s maroccanity.

Thus, in the historical speech pronounced by His Majesty the King Mohammed VI during the Green March anniversary, the king had strongly affirmed : “time is for clarity and assumed obligations. We are either patriots or traitors. There is no happy medium between patriotism and betrayal “. Message received 5/5...