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...lack of crises to travel around North Africa, particularly Morocco, for which he developed an enduring love. (Today his office, which is his castle, is known behind his back as "little Morocco," because it is lined with books on Morocco, and its desk and walls are covered with Moroccan memorabilia...
...kidnaped Mehdi Ben Barka? It is almost exactly a year since the diminutive exiled Moroccan leftist leader vanished from a street in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For the past several weeks the knotty mystery of his disappearance has been unraveling in a Paris court. All the evidence confirms the likelihood that he stepped willingly into a black Peugeot and was whisked to a villa in a Paris suburb because he believed that envoys of his old political enemy, Morocco's King Hassan II, were trying to contact him with an offer to return home for a reconciliation...
...dock were five Frenchmen-a journalist, two policemen and two secret agents-and one small-time Moroccan police operative. All were charged with either participation or complicity in the kidnaping. The two most wanted men were out of reach of French law. They were Morocco's Interior Minister Brigadier General Mohamed Oufkir and his deputy for secret-police matters, Ahmed Dlimi. Witnesses named them as the Moroccans who had met Ben Barka at the villa. King Hassan flatly refused to hand them over for trial. In fact, he had been working feverishly behind the scenes to block the proceedings...
...Moroccan Intervention. At last, Hassan himself decided to intervene, and he chose an ingenious way to do it. Last week Dlimi, his secret-police aide, boarded a Royal Air Maroc Caravelle in Casablanca and flew-suitably disguised and with a fake passport-to Paris. The next afternoon, just as the trial of the six defendants was drawing to a close, Dlimi calmly showed up at the court and surrendered to French authorities...
...Treatment. Nor was there any assurance that Dlimi himself would ever face a French judge. No sooner had he surrendered than a bevy of Hassan's hand-picked lawyers arrived in Paris to file a motion with France's Supreme Court invoking the Franco-Moroccan judicial convention of 1956. Under that agreement, French and Moroccan nationals must be tried in their national courts for offenses committed in the other country. It would also be months before the French court could rule on that motion. In the meantime, Dlimi was comfortably ensconced in a VIP cell at Paris...