Barlaman Today has learned from a source in the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication that the latter has decided to hire a Moroccan lawyer to defend a new theft related to Moroccan heritage.
The matter concerns the theft of patterns for the Moroccan “Zellij” or mosaic, in special designs of jerseys attributed to Algeria, which prompted the ministry to act urgently and hire lawyer Mourad Elajouti in this file.
According to the source, Elajouti sent an injunction to the legal representative of Adidas at its social headquarters in Germany, where he was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Communication to alert the company that it was a matter of cultural appropriation and attempted robbery of one of the forms of traditional Moroccan cultural heritage and its use out of context, the thing that contributes to the loss and distortion of the identity and history of these cultural elements.
The source concludes by saying that the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication will spare no effort in defending Moroccan heritage from theft and countering any such practice and will defend Moroccan heritage all over the world.