A Moroccan citizen has travelled to Iraq to join Peshmerga fighters to fight the so-called “Islamic” State of Iraq and Syria terrorist group, ISIS.
25-year-old Karim Franceschi, born to a Moroccan mother and an Italien father, said in a letter he wrote before heading to Kobani that “as a revolutionary person, I mean to be there [with the Peshmerga fighters] to share the practices of resistance, to look straight to the reality and defeat fear. This is why I left for Kobane.”
The piece of news went mainstream in Italy when his Italien friends decided to break the silence on Karim’s choice in an interview given to the weekly magazine Vanity Fair.
“We only knew it was true [him being resolved to travel to Kobane] when he showed us the tickets and left us a letter, telling us then to choose the most appropriate time to make it public,” his friends said.
“We would have preferred to wait for his return to make it public. Mainly because it would be more correct for him to explain his case in person,” Karim’s friends further noted.
Karim has followed a short training before leaving, his friends explained.
In the same letter he left to his friends before leaving to Kobani, Karim said the following: “my ideals of freedom, justice and equality have no national or cultural boundaries. Today my patriotic values are universal.”
One of his friends said that “the choice that Karim has taken is courageous and of great generosity and humanity.”
The Moroccan Times.
