In Al Hoceima Morocco, demonstrators flocked despite the ban

The moroccans are sick of the rulers, no jobs, no money, the country is rich, but they don't know where goes the goods of their country, or better say they don't know anything about anything, extreme pauverty, dirty water, compressive pressure they feel from years, no health care if you are not rich, the hospitals are just like scrap, or better say all the institutions are like scrap, homes are too, persecution of streets vendors, studying for more than 20 years for 0 job at the end, you can fail in school just for 0.5 point, the quality of professors and the student's life is already down, supression, no human rights, that's what is this march about, because nothing is understandable in Morocco.

The ban on the demonstration of 20 July does not seem to stop the inhabitants of neighboring towns and villages, who continue to flock to Al Hoceima.

Al Hoceima, Thursday 20 July. The mercury displays 26 degrees. A quiet time that does not reflect the tense and anxiety-ridden climate in the city. The forces of order are back on the place Mohammed VI, which they left a few weeks ago on royal instructions. An initiative that was intended as evidence of good faith by the authorities to resolve the situation, and which would be followed by stronger ones if the population welcomed it. Does the return of the forces of order mean the end of this mutual promise?

Several demonstrators attempting to travel to Al Hoceima from Imzouren, Beni Bouayach, Tamassint and other neighboring villages and towns are either registered in red cards or forbidden to continue the journey by gendarmes or policemen stationed at Entrance to the city, attest several sources. "In buses, those who do not have a CIN have been banned from continuing the trip to Al Hoceima. For those who have one, it is at the head of the customer, "tells a member of the Hirak who preferred to remain anonymous. "Others were simply forbidden to leave their city, as is the case of a coach at the exit of Laroui, and another at the exit of Lkassita (a small locality near Nador) ), "Adds our source.

Hakim Saikouk tells us that he and his team were stopped at three gendarmerie barricades: "As soon as we were told that we were going to Al Hoceima, they told us that the demonstration was forbidden and that the signs Had in the car belong to an instance that has no legal existence (the national committee of support to the Hirak, Ed.) ". After being registered, they were allowed to leave. Others preferred the seaway. This is the case of this group of twenty young people, who arrived from the small town of Temsamane by boat.

The demonstration is therefore tense, both because of the ban on demonstration and the persistence of those who want to take part. As a reminder, the day of 20 July commemorates the Battle of Anoual, during which Abdelkarim El Khattabi inflicted a defeat on the Spanish army.