Casablanca Cafe Owners Convert Apartments to Illegal Shisha Bars Amid Crackdown

Last Wednesday, March 18, a manhunt was launched by the auxiliary forces elements, within a building in Casablanca. About ten customers were thus trapped on the roof of the building, before being released a little later.

The owner of a cafe in Ben Msick and the building had decided to convert his first-floor apartment into a shisha space following the closure of his premises.

The raids on shisha bars had begun long before the closure of cafes was decreed by the Ministry of the Interior. 7 shisha spaces, including 2 operating illegally, had been destroyed by the Moroccan authorities.