In hard return to reality. Last weekend, Pope Francis traveled to Iraq for an exceptional visit to the land of Abraham. A great celebration for the Christians of the East, martyred by years of war. For four days, the Sovereign Pontiff worked to bring a message of hope to the Iraqi people, calling for the preservation of fraternity. But the euphoria quickly subsided. From Monday March 8, a controversy arose in the city of Ur, where Pope Francis had delivered a speech two days earlier: “The Iraqis are discussing the fate of the seat on which the sovereign pontiff presided over the Abrahamic prayer”, reported the Raseef22 site, relayed by International mail.
This chair has indeed disappeared after the departure of Pope Francis. Was it stolen or simply taken over by the company that organized the event? An anonymous source, who confided in the Iraqi site Al-Alam Al-Jadid is convinced: “Lebanese society, mandated by the presidency of the Republic [irakienne], stole the seat on which the Pope sat and presided over the interfaith prayer. ”
The armchair was to be exhibited at the museum
An assertion corroborated by Iraqi politicians, who told the Raseef22 site that this company had even “brought out the siege of Iraq”, while other witnesses considered “that it is in fact an employee of the company who stole the seat and took it out of the country ”. The oil company in Dhi Qar province, which hosted the event at the archaeological site of Ur, immediately set out to defend the accused Lebanese company. She swore that the papal armchair belonged to the latter, as did the stage and the sanitary equipment installed for the event. However, the inspection of antiquities of the province of Dhi Qar, where Ur is located, certified it: it had indeed demanded from the oil company that it cede the famous seat to the Museum of Civilizations of Nasiriyya, underlines International mail.
The day after an extraordinary papal visit, this affair reminds us of “the endemic corruption that is rampant in the country”, underlines the Raseef22 site. For the region of Dhi Qar, which was the instigator of the “October revolution” against power in 2019, the backlash is cruel. And the papal visit only masked the misery that reigns in Iraq for a few days. As in the capital Baghdad, where “the visit of the Pope obliged [les autorités] to plant trees in the streets, to flower the islets and to asphalt the roads “, but where” dirt and neglect quickly regained their rights “, as a political activist deplores after Al-Araby Al-Jadid.
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