PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande telephoned Morocco's King Mohammed VI to try to calm a diplomatic row over two human rights incidents that caused outrage in the former French colony.
Rabat summoned the French ambassador to protest on Saturday after police went to its embassy in Paris in an attempt to question the head of Morocco's domestic intelligence as an alleged accomplice to torture, following lawsuits filed against him in France by Moroccan activists.
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