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Place of Birth: Settat, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
About Driss Basri
- Driss Basri (Arabic: ????? ??????? Idris al-Ba?riy, 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.
- His name has been associated with the Years of Lead.Mohammed VI's decision to end his functions in 1999 increased, for a while, hopes for the democratisation of Morocco.
- He then exiled himself to Paris, where he died of cancer in 2007.
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