Coastal Erosion Threatens Luxury Villas on Morocco’s Monica Beach

The environment is in peril in Mohammedia. Villas have been built on the Monica beach following the failure of the "Corniche de Mohammedia" project which had been initiated by King Mohammed VI in 2014, as part of the Greater Casablanca development plan 2015/2020, and mobilized a budget of 200 million dirhams. This project, which was supposed to start after the end of the 2014/2015 summer season, never saw the light of day, reports Rue20.com.

Citizens, most of them Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), have participated in sit-ins in front of the construction sites to alert the authorities to the danger. They also contacted the prefecture of the province, but received no response. They were later shocked by the completion of the construction of villas very close to the sea that do not respect the legal distance of construction on the coasts.

According to them, construction near the coasts must leave a distance of at least 300 meters from the last wave flow, which has not been respected by those responsible for these luxury villas. As a result, the Monica beach is now facing a critical environmental situation due to coastal erosion and the appearance of rocks near luxury residences and villas threatened with collapse.