Cembrero and Lmlawet: Chronicle of Two Illusionists in Search of Credibility

Some duos stay in history: Laurel and Hardy, Asterix and Obelix, and now… Abdelhak Cembrero and Alilou Lmlawet, the new champions of security fiction. One poses as an investigative journalist with the precision of a soap-opera writer; the other an aspiring geopolitical analyst who doesn’t even master fact-checking. Together they serve up a series worthy of prime-time propaganda TV.

Their obsession? Imagining a secret war between DGST and DGED an entirely fabricated vendetta allegedly orchestrated by Mr. Hammouchi himself. According to them, he spends more time plotting against colleagues than ensuring the security and stability of a key nation, ignoring the reality of effective inter-agency coordination.

Cembrero, faithful to his role as a Morocco-obsessed wordsmith, initiated the rumor. Lmlawet, unable to offer anything original, amplified it in a dramatic tweet that was supposedly a “hot scoop.” He claims a simple spa in Rabat is at the center of an intelligence services feud. Seriously? Even the writers of Money Heist would have rejected such a twist.

In their shared delusion, a site like Barlamane.com becomes a digital extension of the DGST—a “watchdog” trained to bark on command. Let’s remember this outlet regularly publishes internal criticism and is no confidential bulletin. But for our two conspiracy theorists, every ordinary event is a state-level plot, and every judicial inquiry, political persecution.

The climax of their show comes when Lmlawet dares imply the Interior Minister is part of a coup against the state. One doesn’t know whether to laugh or worry about his mental health. If absurdity were an Olympic sport, this duo would take gold.

Yet, we must recall a simple truth: these attempts to discredit Moroccan institutions are anything but innocent. They fit a carefully orchestrated strategy by external actors serving Algerian hostility, whose talking points are zealously recycled by these two editorial clowns.

So yes, maybe one caricature was needed. But you’d need several: one for Cembrero as a paranoid Don Quixote, another for Lmlawet as a Sancho Panza of false alarms. The two of them aren’t interested in informing they write fables, all with the comical solemnity of troubadours convinced they are shaping History.