FRICA-EUROPE: LANDEL (RABAT), TRADE OF MOROCCAN WOMEN TO THE GULF COUNTRIES IS INCREASING (2)” ” ” “

(from our correspondent) – “All these migrants have become commodities – says mgr. Landel –. The European countries pay to have them sent back home; by the traders, they are treated like objects and left at sea when there’s some danger, leaving the boats go adrift; and we Europeans are ready to welcome only ‘the useful hands’ and the ‘useful brains’. But what about the others?" According to the bishop of Rabat, there is also a migration from the north to the south, which is a "sort of slavery": "slaves to money, to the benefits of the delocalisation of the companies, to taxation. Many for instance come to live in Morocco to pay less taxes". All this, he states, "cannot be regulated country by country. We have to find an international solution, laid down by such organisation as the UN, Unesco, Unicef, the World Health Organisation". "Every man is entitled to go and live or work wherever he likes – specifies mgr. Landel – but before this right I would put the right to be able to live decorously in his own country". Before such situations, he concludes, "as a Church we have to carry out the ‘pastoral of cry’".