By Rex Wockner
International News Report
 King Mohammed VI |
Dutch national television news' NOS-Journaal has reported that
the new king of Morocco, Sidi Moulay Mohammed (Mohammed VI), is
gay, according to the Dutch newspaper De Gay Krant.
The report has led to weekly anti-media demonstrations in the
city of Utrecht, which has a large Moroccan population and is 15
kilometers from the TV network's headquarters in Hilversum. |
Mohammed, 36, went to college in Brussels, Belgium, and regularly
hung out in gay bars there, De Gay Krant said.
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And his homosexuality is "common knowledge" in Moroccan
intellectual circles, Marrakech resident Tony Flavel told the
newspaper.
"But you better not talk about it," he said. "The police and the
armed forces are against the new king for precisely this reason.
They would prefer his younger straight brother, Moulay Rashid."
NOS-Journaal Editor-in-Chief Hans Brom told De Gay Krant that the
program's journalists are sure of their facts.
"The truth cannot be rectified," he said "Our correspondent,
Robbert Bosschard, spoke with the chief of police and the
commander-in-chief of the Moroccan army. They were convinced that
the new king is gay and they were afraid of the future under a
homosexual monarch."
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Gay sex is banned in Morocco by Article 489 of the Penal Code.
The punishment is up to three years in jail and a fine of up to
1200 dirham (US$122).
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