(Maybe I will complete 100 blog entries...quantity not quality!)
Continuing with this milliar/money thing...
So two milliar-naires got into a fight last weekend, and everyone in town knows about it. Based on my limited Darija/Fusha, here's the town gossip (and what was written in the newspapers):
The man who owns the big gas station in town lent over 1,000,000DH over 5 years ago to another man involved in real estate. Both men are from B-town, and both partook in an elaborate lunch during the moussem at a Minister's house. All three men are milliar-naires.
After the lunch, the gas station man, his son, and his driver beat up the man who borrowed money because the man apparently had not repaid it.
Although this happened on a Saturday, the real estate man called on friends in the justice department to open the office so he could file a complaint. Now, the gas station man and the two others are in jail.
How long will the men be in jail? What's jail like for a milliar-naire? Was there a contract for the loan repayment? And if so, what were the details? Surely there were witnesses to the fight, and perhaps they could have stopped the attack? How hurt is the real estate man? Would this be news all over town if the men weren't famous/wealthy? How much influence must one have to open the office on a weekend? Who has more influence? What will happen? Those are some of my unanswered questions. But of course, mashi shguli ("not my business").
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