Former Teacher Now Homeless, Sleeps in Skhirat Cemetery

For more than a year, Meriem has been walking the streets of the city of Skhirat, refusing any form of charity from passers-by, let alone the many associations that have offered to get her out of this homeless life.

She spends her day in front of the grand taxi station in the city, before joining the cemetery towards nightfall. A ritual that, according to Akhbarona, has been going on since her arrival in Skhirat, and which has ended up deteriorating her physical and mental health.

Meriem was a French teacher in a school in Khemisset, before coming to be treated by a supposed healer in Skhirat. She had suffered a severe depressive episode, following the death of her husband. What happened next? No one knows, except that she was renting a room in the El Fath neighborhood, before becoming homeless.