Mustapha Adib ( ar, مصطفى أديب; born 1968 in
Taroudannt
Taroudant (; ar, تارودانت, Latn, ar, tārūdānt, ) is a city in the Sous Valley in south western Morocco. It is situated east of Agadir on the road to Ouarzazate and the Sahara desert and south of Marrakesh. The town is known as the "Gr ...
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is an ex-
captain
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in the
Royal Moroccan Air Force
The Royal Moroccan Air Force ( ar, القوات الجوية الملكية; ber, Adwas ujenna ageldan; french: Forces Royales Air) is the air force of the Moroccan Armed Forces.
History
The Moroccan air force was formed on 14 May 1956 as the ...
. In late 1999, he was arbitrarily detained then imprisoned for 30 months after he denounced corruption in the military.
Imprisonment in 1999
Mustapha Adib was stationed in
Errachidia
Errachidia ( ar, الرشيدية, Berber: ⵉⵎⴻⵜⵖⴰⵔⵏ Imetɣaren) is a city in Morocco, located in the Errachidia Province, and is the capital of the Drâa-Tafilalet region.
The city's residents speak Berber and Moroccan Arabic.
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and was in charge of Telecommunications maintenance in the Moroccan Air Forces, there he witnessed theft of fuel by high-ranking officials of the military.
[ In late 1998, he wrote a letter to Mohammed VI (then crown prince) denouncing the corruption he saw. He was prosecuted for the same acts he denounced but was at first acquitted. He was later received by the new commander of the Air Force, Ahmed Boutaleb and after insisting on having the corrupt officials prosecuted he was condemned in 2000 to 30 months in prison.]
Abdelaziz Bennani incident
On 18 June 2014, Mustapha Adib visited the Val-de-Grâce
The (' or ') was a military hospital located at in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was closed as a hospital in 2016.
History
The church of the was built by order of Queen Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII. After the birth of h ...
, the hospital where general Abdelaziz Bennani
General Abdelaziz Bennani ( ar, عبد العزيز بناني – b. 28 September 1935, Taza, d. 20 May 2015, Rabat) was a senior Moroccan Army officer who was, between 27 July 2004 and 13 June 2014, "General Inspector of the Armed Forces", t ...
was following treatment in France. He tried to visit the general but was not authorised to access the room, after which he left him a bouquet of cheap flowers and a message, in which he accused Bennani of being a criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, the impoverishment of thousands of deceased soldiers children and a corrupt who stole state's assets.[ Bennani is mired in suspicions of high-level corruption according to various sources, including leaked US diplomatic cables.]Maghreb Arabe Presse
Maroc Agence Presse (known as MAP, french: Maroc Agence Presse) is the Moroccan state-owned official news agency.
History and profile
The agency was founded on 31 May 1959 by Mehdi Bennouna in Rabat. It was nationalized in 1973.
The directo ...
, the Moroccan state protested this incident and stated that Abdelaziz Bennani was "assaulted morally" 'sic''">sic.html" ;"title="'sic">'sic'' with the tacit complacency of French authorities.[ The chief of Moroccan external intelligence ( DGED), Direction générale des études et de la documentation">DGED), Yassine Mansouri (also a classmate of king Mohammed VI of Morocco">Mohammed VI Muhammad VI may refer to:
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) summoned the French Ambassador in Rabat">Collège Royal (Rabat)">Collège Royal) summoned the French Ambassador in Rabat to protest.
The Moroccan ambassador in Paris and former minister of the Interior, Chakib Benmoussa tried to meet the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius to express "dissatisfaction" over the incident, but was only received by his chief of cabinet.