Is the Royal Gendarmerie's mission to maintain security or to ensure the comfort of the sheikhs while they dance?

Is the Royal Gendarmerie’s mission to maintain security or to ensure the comfort of the sheikhas?

A video circulating widely on social media shows members of the Royal Gendarmerie in uniform closely monitoring and guarding a stage where a moulslim and female sheikhs are performing a folk dance.

This scene sparked a massive wave of condemnation and angry comments among citizens, who viewed the Royal Gendarmerie’s direct presence—intended to provide exceptional security around the stage—as vulgar and a trivialization of the symbolism and dignity of the uniform, which represents the rule of law and the protection of the nation.

Many commentators warned of the danger of neglecting to preserve this public image of the gendarme in the eyes of the general public, explaining that trivializing the symbolism of security in minor incidents could have negative repercussions, such as a decline in respect and increased defiance toward security personnel in public spaces by certain groups.

They also stressed the need to organize security coverage by assigning the protection of stages and VIP areas to private security companies, so that members of the public security forces—including National Security, the Royal Gendarmerie, and auxiliary forces— carry out their security duties from strategic locations that maintain public order and preserve their authority.