In a press release entitled "Stop the instrumentalization of the Moroccan diaspora in France", more than 130 NGOs representing the Moroccan community in France protested against the instrumentalization of the diaspora by the signatories of this platform who were expressing their views on behalf of the diaspora so as to mislead public opinion on the case of Omar Radi.

On August 14, 2020, an Op-Ed was published online by the publication Orient XXI under the title "Stop the relentlessness against Omar Radi and the repression of public speech in Morocco" and was written in such a way that the reader may think it could be representative of the voice of Moroccans living in France, the associations of the Moroccan diaspora noted.

This text says it denounces the “repressive and violent police responses” against journalists and human rights activists that Morocco “relentlessly” seeks to “neutralize” with “fallacious accusations”, “ harassment ” and “ intimidation,” it said.

"By writing: We Moroccans living in France, as well as many activists in France and elsewhere, are following with concern this escalation led by the Moroccan state against the freedom of expression (...), the initiators of this platform claim to alert, on behalf of the Moroccan community in France, "the international bodies regarding this situation" and call on "all the democratic forces in France and elsewhere in the world to express their support for the cause of freedom of expression which 'currently embodies the journalist Omar Radi,” the document added.

"We, associations of Moroccans living in France, representative of thousands of our fellow citizens, strongly denounce the dishonesty of the initiators of this approach who claim to speak on behalf of Moroccans or Franco-Moroccans in France, while they have neither the legitimacy nor the moral authority to do so,” the source pointed out.

The associations of the Moroccan diaspora in France have also condemned "the fallacious allegations" used by the initiators of this text, "with the aim of misleading public opinion on the representativeness of the list of signatories of this text in which the people, who can claim to be from Morocco, are a minority”.

While noting "with surprise the significant presence of Tunisian organizations or organizations led by Tunisians in the list of the signatories of this text", the associations of Moroccans in France consider that "this flagrant interference in the internal affairs of Morocco which concern only Moroccans and them alone, is a line of conduct that questions the objectives that these Tunisian organizations are seeking”.

They also note "with astonishment that several structures created by the Polisario separatists or which support them have signed this text".

"Our amazement is all the greater since the Polisario leaders are currently the subject of a European parliamentary action for the diversion of humanitarian aid sent to the populations in the Tindouf camps, on the basis of a scathing report by OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office. Their leader, Brahim Ghali, is also accused of crimes against humanity and human rights abuses, and called to present himself before the highest Spanish court," they say.

“We call on the Moroccan community in France and across the world to denounce this malicious approach,” the source said.

Finally, "the defense of human rights and the free exercise of the press are causes that are far too precious to accept that they are instrumentalised and that the Moroccans of the world are used as a screen to try, in a vicious way, to give credibility to the spread of misleading information about Morocco,” say the associations of the Moroccan diaspora in France.