Blind Graduates Storm Morocco Ministry, Threaten Suicide Over Unemployment

Armed with gas bottles, gasoline cans and ropes, the unemployed visually impaired and blind graduates have once again gone from words to action this Tuesday, and have stormed an annex of the Ministry of Solidarity. Some have placed themselves directly on the window sills, ready to jump.

Hossine Adlal, the coordinator of these unemployed graduates, says to the Huffpost: "No one answers us. We have again seized the head of government this week by sending him a new letter in which we describe our distress, calling on him to grant us our right to employment. But nothing!" Already, on February 26, the members of this Coordination had informed of their decision to carry out "a collective sacrifice", in order to work for future generations because they say they are aware that the State will do nothing for them.

According to Alyaoum24, two officials from the Ministry of Health had to be taken to the hospital because visually impaired and blind unemployed people had thrown gasoline on them. All the officials fled the annex when they saw the gas bottle because these unemployed graduates could explode it at any time.

Still at the HuffPost, Adlal says: "We brought gas bottles, gasoline cans and ropes and we went up to the top floor of the annex of the Ministry of Solidarity (Rabat-Agdal)". There are 16 of them, including one woman, who managed to get up.

The National Coordination of Visually Impaired and Blind Unemployed Graduates has declared in a statement: "This is how we protest against the neglect of the officials, including the ministers and parliamentarians, who have not kept their commitment to find us a solution."

Some of them have called for the intervention of King Mohammed VI to "put an end to their ordeal", according to Alyaoum24.