Morocco: Workers protest to reopen the petroleum refinery

Morocco – Around 900 workers from the Samair company decided to start a march from the headquarters of the refinery in the city of Muhammadiyah in the direction of the headquarters of the Commercial Court, to demand the reopen of the only oil refining unit in Morocco. The secretary-general of the National Union for Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries affiliated to the Democratic Labour Confederation, Hussein Al-Yamani, said that workers, engineers demand to reopen  the refinery, as it is considered the safety valve for the energy security of Morocco, in addition that opening it again would saving more than 6000 workers. . Al-Hussein Al-Yamani said that workers also are demanding to file cases against the former owner of the refinery, the Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi and Gamal Baamer, the executive director of Samair and the rest of its branches in Morocco, before the judiciary and hold them accountable for the crimes they committed against the refinery and its workers And against Morocco, as they endangered energy security.