Histoire driss basri biography
Basri came from a poor rural family originally from a village near Settat..
Driss Basri
Moroccan politician (1938–2007)
Not to be confused with Fqih Basri.
Driss Basri (Arabic: إدريس البصريIdrīs al-Baṣrīy, 8 November 1938 in Settat – 27 August 2007) was a Moroccan politician who served as interior minister from 1979 to 1999.
After General Oufkir's death in 1972, and then Ahmed Dlimi's death in 1983, Driss Basri became Hassan II's right-hand man and number two of the regime from the beginning of the 1980s to the end of the 1990s.[1][2] His name has been associated with the Years of Lead.[2]
Mohammed VI's decision to end his functions in 1999 increased, for a while, hopes for the democratisation of Morocco.[1] He then exiled himself to Paris, where he died of cancer in 2007.
Driss Basri, the former Moroccan Minister of Interior Department died in Paris, following a long disease.
Career
Basri came from a poor rural family originally from a village near Settat. His father emigrated to Rabat to work as a "Chaouch", a low rank warden in the administration. Driss Basri never completed secondary school (he did no