New slip-ups in Laayoune: Separatists instrumentalise visits by foreign delegations

While visits by foreign delegations to the Kingdom's Southern Provinces have been following one another in recent days, certain parties want to take advantage of the situation and push their activism to the limit. On Saturday, 4 May, the city of Laayoune saw a demonstration by separatists coinciding with the visit of a delegation of foreign journalists, which includes six journalists representing different media (Great Britain, Canada, and the USA), as well as the director of programmes at the International Women's Media Foundation, Nadine Hoffman. Several concordant sources report an unprecedented mobilisation of the enemies of territorial integrity and "deliberately provoked incidents aimed at discrediting the issue of territorial integrity". According to the same sources, injuries were reported, particularly among the security forces. These events recall those provoked in Laayoune la…