Morocco Divided: Viral Campaign Demands Expulsion of Sub-Saharan Migrants

This demand primarily targets people in an irregular situation and those accused of being involved in acts of violence. The hashtag "Against the settlement of sub-Saharan Africans" is widely disseminated by participants who claim that this demographic presence would threaten the "Moroccan lineage". Alongside this call for expulsion, a second campaign is targeting the housing sector, calling on landlords to prohibit the rental of properties to sub-Saharan citizens. This latter action is justified by its promoters due to "practices and acts" that would be attributed to them in several cities.

The emergence of this movement is directly linked by its organizers to incidents and acts of delinquency that have recently occurred in the country, with the presumed perpetrators being sub-Saharan migrants. From this perspective, the campaign is presented by its supporters as a call for the regulation of flows of migrants in an irregular situation, whose criminal records are, according to them, unknown to the authorities.

These positions do not please everyone. On the one hand, many commentators and citizens describe the campaign as "racist" and discriminatory, highlighting the "dramatic situations" experienced by a large part of these migrants. Others, on the contrary, consider this initiative as a measure of protection and migration control.