A real drama… On the night of Friday September 8 to Saturday September 9, 2023, a powerful earthquake hit Morocco. Although research is still ongoing, more than a thousand people died. Originally from Casablanca, where he lived until he was 17, Gad Elmaleh was very affected by the images of the drama. “What shocked me this morning when I woke up was the state of shock in which all the people I spoke to were, my family, my friends, and others. […] We’re not ready to live through this, it’s a horror film“, he confided on Saturday September 9, 2023 in the columns of Parisian. Believing that “every euro will count”the 52-year-old comedian said: “We will all be united. We must rebuild, and rebuild ourselves. This is colossal, unimaginable damage. I call for solidarity. Every donation is important. We really need to mobilize, facilitate access to roads, to destroyed areas, and governments, despite their generosity, will not be able to do everything.”
Gad Elmaleh: “I want to go to those who were shocked”
Moved, the father of two children said: “I cry because I am Moroccan, but the enthusiasm of the French upsets me. It is a human tragedy, universal, there is neither religion nor nationality. We join hands, we are brothers in humanity .” During this interview, Gad Elmaleh also announced that he would visit the site soon. “I want to go to those who have been shocked and tested and to sit next to them, as one comforts someone in mourning, to reaching out physically to a person who is in distress, it is my duty“, he added. A few hours earlier, it’s on BFM TV that he had expressed himself. “Today, I encourage people who are perplexed, who cry in front of their TV and don’t know what to do, I tell them that every penny counts. There are those who are shocked, we must help these people who are alive to resume their lives. This is where this surge of solidarity makes sense and that’s why I’m speaking out, to motivate and unite around this call for donations“he confided.