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PIECES OF NEWS FROM THE MOROCCAN PRESS
YESTERDAY I read in ALAHDATH MAGHREBIA that the Wali of Kenitra , Mr ABDELLATIF BENCHRIFA , invited a spanish delegation to dinner....In ASSABAH, which is also a daily newspaper, the delegation changed the nationality and become Portugese..Today, November2,this is what I read in ALMASSAE , a new daily edited by Rachid Nini: ( translation is mine)
Julia Roberts defends the Djemaa El Fna monkeys
This week Julia Roberts , the most famous American actress , raised controversy in Hollywood by criticising the way Moroccan monkeys are chained in Djemaa El Fna..The Oscar-winning actress has come to Morocco where the shooting of the film ,Charlie Wilson's War, is taking place...She was astounded to see the monkeys chained and called that act'barbarian'..
IN IRELAND ONLINE I FOUND ANOTHER VERSION OF THE SAME STORY
Roberts courts controversy with monkeys
Julia Roberts courted controversy this week when she posed for photographs with chained monkeys in Morocco.
The Oscar winner took time out of filming Charlie Wilson's War in the North African country to enjoy the sights of Marrakech.
Roberts succumbed to the tourist attraction of cuddling up with performing Barbary monkeys in the city's famed Djemaa El Fna.
Animal rights groups and respected travel guides such as Lonely Planet encourage tourists to refrain from paying to pose with the macaques, who are kept in chains in the bustling city all day and are removed from their natural habitat in the nearby Atlas Mountains.
If you were in my shoes , would you believe the Moroccan journalist or the Irish one?
To help you give a correct answer, just have a look at the pic below
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