After working for years as a consular official in Düsseldorf, Moroccan national Mohammed Assila became an expert in teaching Islam in Spain before serving as a member of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany.
Today, France celebrates the anniversary of Corsica’s liberation from the German occupation. In 2013, President Francois Hollande and Prince Moulay Rachid paid homage to the Moroccan soldiers who fought against the German. Corsica, however, marked the history of Morocco in a different way, serving for a few months as an exile of Sultan Mohammed V.