Agadir Authorities Relocate Migrants Ahead of Rumored Royal Visit

14 March 2019 – byAmine · 1 min read

The local authorities of Agadir proceeded on Tuesday evening (very late) to the "accompaniment" of more than a hundred sub-Saharan migrants to a temporary reception center located north of the city. Some observers see an upcoming royal visit to Agadir as the cause of all this.

A royal visit to Agadir is said to be planned for early April. And on March 12, a large-scale operation took place to take sub-Saharan migrants to a temporary shelter.

Many migrants had set up tents in front of businesses near the bus station, apparently causing inconvenience to the population, to the point that the local authorities made the issue of sub-Saharan migrants one of their priorities.

On Tuesday evening, the authorities requisitioned buses and gathered a large number of auxiliary forces to "transfer" them to a temporary reception center. At first, the agents on site would even, according to Alyaoum24, have tried to force them onto the buses, but seeing some resistance, diplomacy was preferred. It would be about 120 sub-Saharan migrants, still according to the same source.