More than 20,000 people stranded in Morocco have been repatriated to France aboard special flights since Rabat's decision to close its air borders with France due to the resumption of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have learned Tuesday from a French diplomatic source.

Among the passengers repatriated since Friday are a majority of tourists but also businessmen and "semi-residents", who share their place of residence between Morocco and France, said this source.

Flights suspended since November 25

Rabat decided on November 25, before the appearance of the new Omicron variant, to suspend “until further notice” regular flights to and from France due to the resurgence of the epidemic.

Special flights, subject to authorization from the Moroccan authorities, have been organized for people who have not been able to return to France.

The companies Air France and Transavia have set up special flights from Morocco since Friday, and the national company Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has scheduled them to France from this Tuesday until December 6. .

France is by far Morocco's leading economic partner: more than 1.3 million Moroccans live in France and nearly 80,000 French people live in Morocco.

More than 2,300 Belgian tourists stranded

In addition, the low-cost airline TUIfly has announced that it will operate 18 special flights between December 1 and 5 to repatriate some 2,377 Belgian tourists still stuck on Moroccan territory, according to a press release.

Since midnight Monday, all direct passenger flights to Morocco have been suspended for two weeks "in order to preserve Morocco's achievements in the fight against the pandemic".

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