On January the 10th, 1966, L’Express published on its cover the testimony of a French man who witnessed the kidnapping, a few weeks earlier, of Mehdi Ben Barka. Seven days later, George Figon was found dead in his apartment. On January the 20th, an international arrest warrant was issued against General Oufkir and General Dlimi. The French weekly news magazine’s story that caused a scandal. History.
On the 29th of October 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka was allegedly abducted in France by French police and never seen again. According to an article issued by the Time magazine entitled «the Murder of Ben Barka», the Moroccan politician’s disappearance involves Moroccan agents, the French intelligence agents and the Israeli Mossad.
Israelis are involved in the mysterious assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka. This was highlighted in the book «Rise and Kill First» which gives the leading role to Israel.
Relations between King Hassan II and the Mossad services continue to make headlines in the Arab world. This time, it is «Assafir», Lebanon’s most famous newspaper that translated another article of Yedioth Ahronoth, which interviewed Meit Amir, the former director of the Mossad services in the 60s. The latter has given a detailed description of the Mossad’s involvement in the kidnapping and assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka.
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