Mystery and embarrassment in Morocco for 13 imams who disappeared in Europe

Selected and paid, they left to take care of the spiritual care of their emigrant compatriots. But once Ramadan was over they never returned

ROME – Mystery and dismay in Morocco over 13 missing imams. Having left for Ramadan to take care of the spiritual care of the many compatriots who had emigrated to Europe, they never returned, losing track before the return flight scheduled last month from France, Belgium and Germany.
A setback for the Ministry for Islamic Affairs which pays them monthly and which had chosen them one by one, for service in their homeland mosques and on occasion also at abroad, considering degrees, masters and sometimes even doctorates.

RABAT PREPARES THE STRACK-UP ON SELECTIONS

In the press, for example in the Belgian newspaper La Libre, there are those who joke about the fact that the 13 disappeared instead of bringing the good news. And the government has taken action in Rabat, writes the Moroccan newspaper Assabah: from next year those who will expatriate for Ramadan, to avoid surprises, will only be imams with wives and children at home. Unlike the 13 missing.