In Rabat, « we have dislodged people for ten years, for a five -week event » – Liberation

“I have nowhere to go. They just have to tear me out with the rest of the house. ” Fatiha (1), a hard -sized septuagenarian, does not seem to be impressed by the ball of the bulldozers and other shovelers who has been animating his daily life for several weeks. Around her, half a dozen buildings have already been reduced to ruins. « I’m not going to have fun moving, at my age. I have no one: neither children nor grandchildren. I only have God and the king « she implores. The portrait of Mohammed VI dominates the small piece of fifteen square meters which serves as a house.

His house, like so many others, may be the victim of the new urban planning plan in Rabat, approved by the capital on December 12. It not only provides for the expansion of the main arteries, but also the creation of leisure infrastructure, including a golf project ahead of replacing the popular district of Douar El Askar. The municipal opposition qualifies this project« insulting », Especially since the country is going through its seventh consecutive year of drought.

Beyond the displayed objective of transforming the Moroccan capital over the next ten years, the authorities seem to have put the double bites to hold the deadlines imposed by FIFA for