US Edition"The Investigation Is Not Dead": 60 Years After the Disappearance of Ben Barka, His Son Heard in Paris
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A leading figure of the anti-colonialist movement and opposing King Hassan II, Mehdi Ben Barka was abducted on 29 October 1965 in front of the Lipp brewery in Paris. Sentenced to death in absentia by Moroccan justice, the man never reappeared.
Jeune Afrique / Africa in Summary, July 18, 2025. Photo: Bachir Ben Barka, son of the Moroccan opposition leader kidnapped in 1965 and whose body was never found, poses with a book written by his father. © Jeff PACHOUD / AFP Sixty years ago, the Moroccan opposition leader disappeared, kidnapped in Paris [...] La entrada Morocco. Sixty years after the disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka, has the investigation reopened? was first published in Latin A…
The investigation into the disappearance in 1965 of the Moroccan socialist opponent, Mehdi Ben Barka has just experienced a resurgence of activity, said to AFP his son, Bachir Ben Barka, after having been heard in Paris by the new French investigating judge in charge of the case, the oldest in France. "The investigation is not [...]
Bachir Ben Barka was interviewed for two hours on Thursday by this new magistrate in charge of the investigations conducted in Paris, in an investigation which has been running since 1975 and presented as the oldest in France. "We feel this judge really involved. In one year, she imbued herself with the d
Sixty years ago the Moroccan opponent disappeared, kidnapped in Paris in 1965 and whose body has never been found. The investigation, conducted in France by a new investigating judge, will soon experience advances, promises the son of the Moroccan opponent.
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