Arriving in France at the end of July 2021, the Filali couple, who sought political asylum in France after failing in China, are no more influencers than political opponents; they are simply trying to make a name for themselves, thinking they will become famous through their anti-Moroccan tweets in order to hope to reside in France.
But, while wanting to please a minority of critics of Morocco’s openness to Israel, the couple revealed their anti-Semitic nature, sympathising with the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and neo-Nazis.
However, the two fake opponents, after being unmasked by the television channel I24, aroused the anger of the French Jewish community after the publication of a photo showing them reproducing the famous “quenelle” (inverted Nazi salute), a gesture which, as we remember, had cost a certain French comedian named Dieudonné a lot of money.
The couple’s favourite themes were the identification of the Jew with the “permanent danger”, the moral and spiritual harmfulness of the Jews, the demonisation of Judaism as a symbolic image of all evils, the “Judeo-Masonic” danger, the combination of arguments from modern antisemitism with stereotypes that draw on the most violent antisemitic vocabulary.
Without being aware of their antisemitic character and their unhealthy ambition to use their image as opponents just to settle in France and commit more crimes of confidence as they did in Morocco before fleeing to China, some French media fell right into their false reality, presenting them as real opponents who should be granted political refugee status, while knowing that they still possess their Moroccan passports.
In the comment of an activist on social networks referring to an article published in the online media Aljarida24, under the title “The Filali couple… From anti-Semitism to wandering in Israel, seeking asylum” states that: “What the couple is doing is only false affabulations and deceptions for the sake of obtaining asylum in France, as if France and Israel were fools, but the fool and the loser of the story is the Filali couple themselves.
Fortunately, the Bureau National de Vigilance Contre l’Antisémitisme (BNVCA) reacted quickly and issued a press release in which it announced that it had “decided to refer the matter to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), by registered letter, to ask it to refuse to grant any asylum in France, or any protection” to this couple, considering that “it would be inconceivable and incoherent that these individuals who insult France should be protected and welcomed there.
Granting political asylum to fake opponents, but real antisemites, would be a crime against memory.
An association known to be close to the Israeli right, the BNVCA has also announced that it has filed a complaint against the Filali couple for “incitement to hatred and” danger to public order.”
