Moroccan Land Grab Scandal: Victims Speak Out Against Widespread Property Theft

Among these victims are Europeans, Moroccans residing abroad and Moroccans residing in Morocco, recalls l’Économiste. They are members of the Association for Law and Justice in Morocco (ADJM), which is a French law association.

According to the same source, the perpetrators do not miss any opportunity to challenge the legal legitimacy of the ADJM in the name of a very doubtful "patriotism," the same source specifies. Meanwhile, lawyers and advisors are also threatened and defamed on the Internet despite complaints dating back to 2016.

For Me Massoud Laghimi, the lawyer most solicited for these land grabbing cases, the judicial police have just questioned him in relation to these complaints. According to the same source, these victims are often weakened in their fight by the statements of the Director General of the National Land Registry Agency.

For his part, Kimia, who lost with his family their villa in the Oasis district of Casablanca, believes that in doing so, the victims are only claiming their fundamental right to peacefully enjoy their property. As for the director of the largest land registry office in Casablanca, Abderrahim Amal, he was sentenced in this case to 5 years in prison, the same daily specifies. Even if the sentence came after a procedural back and forth between the Court of Cassation (case no. 21434/2019) and the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, the final sentence has not yet been executed to the great dismay of the plaintiff.