Morocco Cracks Down: Hundreds of Illegal Luxury Homes Face Demolition on Public Land

The issue of the anarchic and illegal occupation of the public domain is of interest to parliament, which through the deputy Nadia Touhami of the PPS, has addressed a written question to the Minister of Economy and Finance, Nadia Fettah Alaoui, to understand how the maritime public domain in the seaside resort of Mansouria and other beaches of Bouznika, have become the property of some, who with impunity, have erected about 520 luxury residences, chalets, reports the daily Al Akhbar.

"These unauthorized constructions have been built on land titles No. 56009/S, 8400/S and 8630/S belonging to the private domain of the State and the maritime public domain," said deputy Nadia Touhami. In her response, the minister specified that "these chalets and others have been built on the basis of authorizations granted by the territorial community concerned without the opinion of the party owning the land, while benefiting from the financial benefits paid by the owners of these constructions". Nadia Fettah Alaoui adds that "the construction operation has been suspended by the intervention of the services of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in particular the Directorate of State Domains".

Still in her response to parliament, the minister said she had been approached by an association with a view to regularizing the situation. And it is by looking into the file that her department realized the irregularity. She reassures the deputies on the determination of her ministry to regularize the situation, so that the offenses committed against the Urban Planning Code are sanctioned through the application "of the provisions of law 66-12 relating to the control and repression of offenses in the field of urban planning and construction", warning that if these constructions have to be demolished, they will be, since in the past, judgments have been rendered in similar cases.