Bombing shouldn't stop change in Morocco

At least fourteen people were killed in a bomb attack on a tourist café in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on Thursday. The attack and the need to bring the perpetrators to justice should not stop the process of democratic change in Morocco, the conservative daily ABC warns: "The reform planned by the monarch is obviously not going well and the situation in Morocco threatens to grow much more complicated with a regime that is caught between two fronts. Experiences in other states show that the demands for democracy on the part of a significant part of society are no longer reversible and it would be a mistake to smother them under the pretext of the necessary prosecuting prosecution of the terrorists. On the contrary, the king should turn his back on his current advisers and seek the support of the true democrats to carry through the political reforms the country needs and so isolate the extremists who are trying to fish in troubled waters."

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