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The creation by King Mohammed VI of an Equity and Reconciliation Commission aims to shed light on the violence of the ″years of lead″ and to accompany the political opening of the regime. But the exclusive focus on the events and the victims, without assigning the responsibilities—notably of the state at the highest level—and the culprits, limits the impact of this process, which aims to change monarchy’s authoritarian image.

Khadija Mohsen-Finan, is researcher at Ifri and a teacher at IEP Paris and Institut d'études de l'islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM-EHESS).