Appeal to King Mohammed VI

Stranded at the Syrian-Turkish border, near the “Bab al-Hawa” crossing point for years, a Moroccan woman is sending a cry of distress to King Mohammed VI and the consular authorities to obtain help in order to be repatriated to Morocco with her six children.

Hind Fadel, a Casablancan, recounts her misadventure in Syria. Having settled in Syria with her husband, she had spent years in Damascus since 2002 with her six children. But her life was turned upside down during the events of the Arab Spring in 2011. After the outbreak of war in Syria, her children, her husband and she went to camps on the Turkish border, like thousands of Syrians. Since then, they have remained stuck there due to her husband’s deteriorating health. “During the earthquake in Turkey, we escaped death after the house collapsed on us, and we contacted the Moroccan embassy in Ankara, but in vain, because we were tossed from one official to another,” Hind tells Hespress. She says she fought to have her family repatriated to Morocco. Without success. The Moroccan embassy in Turkey “refused to take us out of there on the pretext that the children did not have Moroccan nationality.” With the help of her mother living in Casablanca, she managed to obtain Moroccan nationality for her children. “After four years of efforts, nationality was obtained for the children in 2018 by the Moroccan courts. After 2018, my children obtained, thanks to the tireless efforts of my mother in Casablanca, Moroccan nationality; they were registered in the civil registry, and we filed the legal documents in all the consulates and embassies…”, she adds.