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It seems the Algerian authorities have found new substantial material to feed their security narratives, after announcing the arrest of 61 Moroccans, whom they claimed were preparing to carry out acts of sabotage affecting security and public order.
A narrative that appears closer to a long spy movie scenario, interweaving airports, mountain paths, and forest trails, concluding with the arrival of dozens of suspects in Oran, awaiting the most important episode: the presentation of evidence proving all these heavy accusations.
According to the official narrative, the group arrived by air at Tunis International Airport, then infiltrated through the El Kala border region before heading towards Oran, noting the presence of a former Moroccan soldier among those arrested. Here begin the questions that are not answered by the statements full of sensational details: How was this alleged plot managed? What is the nature of the sabotage acts these individuals were preparing to carry out? Where is the tangible evidence that transforms this narrative from a mere security announcement into verifiable facts?
What is striking is that the statement provides precise details about the travel route, passports, and seized financial amounts, but it does not reveal enough to the public, based on the published data, to prove the nature of the alleged plot. It's as if the viewer is asked to applaud the end of the episode before seeing the evidence, or to believe the entire scenario simply because an official entity announced it.
What is even more ironic is that accusations of this magnitude are thrown all at once at 61 Moroccans, in a case affecting the security of an entire nation, while crucial details remain absent from the announced statement.
If the Algerian authorities are confident in their narrative, what prevents them from presenting the evidence on which they rely, and clarifying the truth of the actions attributed to those arrested, instead of just resorting to sensational headlines suitable for sparking controversy?
While Algerian media narratives concerning the nationalities of some arrested individuals have previously raised questions in other cases, any claim of cases where Algerians were presented as Moroccans requires independent documentation so that doubt itself does not turn into an accusation without evidence. As for the case of the 61, the simple question that sums up everything is: Where is the evidence? Moroccans are not required to believe every scenario written about them, and serious accusations do not become truth simply by being placed in a security statement.
