By Ali Amar, 02/28/2011
Discretion required, the paparazzi scrutinize closely the comings and goings in the great palaces of the city, since the red city rivals Ibiza or Saint Tropez. As in 2009, where they had spent a few days, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni made it their winter resort, generously invited by the king, which perpetuates an old tradition that his father Hassan II.
The diplomacy Mamounia, the trump card Morocco to seduce the French politicians.
The cascade of revelations Chained Duck on relations between Michele Alliot-Marie (MAM) and the clan forfeit Trabelsi Ben Ali in Tunisia in Morocco are not surprising. Here, the practice is located in political state. It's called "diplomacy Mamounia, named after the famous palace of Marrakesh, the Moroccan state owned, which has always welcomed the biggest celebrities on the planet.
Since Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé had launched the fashion riyads, these mansions nestled in the heart of Moroccan medina, a veritable tidal wave experienced by the Gallic Morocco.
More than 5,000 French nationals, mostly retirees, have elected home, following the broadcast on M6 in 1999 of an issue of the Capital series extolling the charms of Marrakech, Tangier, Essaouira, Agadir and Fez.
winters in the sun to the "tribe Morocco"
But if Morocco has become a destination for French, it is especially for "friends of the kingdom." Some have genealogical links as Elisabeth Guigou, Dominique de Villepin, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Rachida Dati and Eric Besson. But the "tribe Morocco" extends well beyond these attachments. It is almost sprawling. Bernard-Henri Lévy Thierry de Beauce, many political leaders, business leaders, intellectuals and media celebrities in showbiz were in Marrakech in Morocco or elsewhere a second home.
The "greatest country in the world," as stated in the advertisement of the Moroccan tourism becomes a place of worship to visit the French political class, where the relocation of a Council of Ministers would be almost possible during the holiday season, ironically elected.
In December 2010, vacationers were indeed anonymous not only to give the lure of the sweetness of the Moroccan winter: Segolene Royal and her partner Andre Hadjez, for example, were seen in Ouarzazate. Meanwhile, some political advantage, too, the legendary hospitality of the Kingdom of Morocco: Isabelle and Patrick Balkany, close to Nicolas Sarkozy, and Anne Sinclair, DSK, Herve Morin (Hotel Es Saadi in Marrakech- 18 members of his family!), Brice Hortefeux, Jean-Louis Borloo ... The list is long.
Some happy few pampered by Mohammed VI
In many cases, the exotic charm of the country is also the secret weapon of the Moroccan influence in high places of France. These holidays, although private, are too often the occasion of more or less informal contacts with the first circle of the king. Invitations "special", the "friendly prices" applied in places accreditation run by men close to the government, are common practice.
These treats are also routinely applied to VIP Republic française.La Mamounia is the trump card of this policy Makhzen seduction of feudal power in Morocco.
The palace, one of the most famous in the world, regularly hosts many French politicians, both right and left. All are received with special attention knows that deploy Morocco for its guests.
In his time, Philippe Seguin was a regular, as Jack Lang and Philippe Douste-Blazy, who caused a scandal. The Palace and were then quickly stifled Chiraquie this case revealed at the time by the same duck chains, which echoes that of MMA with his friend Aziz Miled.
The royal residence has become Jnane Lekbir also the landmark of the happy few at the French Court of Mohammed VI, if we are to believe his manager Elizabeth Bauchet-Bouhlal, who in his own words has "a habit of seeing land the French political class."
Discretion required, the paparazzi scrutinize closely the comings and goings in the great palaces of the city, since the red city rivals Ibiza or Saint Tropez. As in 2009, where they had spent a few days, Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni made it their winter resort, generously invited by the king, which perpetuates an old tradition that his father Hassan II. Indeed, it was receiving in his kingdom Chirac (at La Gazelle d'Or in Taroudant), like Mitterrand La Mamounia, Mohammed VI also continues to renew its invitation to former President French.
The depravity of MAM-ring in Tunisia they ended a tradition that formerly did not refuse?
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