Morocco Ordered to Pay $1.3 Billion for Unlawful Land Seizures, Court Rules

According to l’Economiste, the amounts claimed from the State in court reached 23 billion DH between 2014 and 2018. This amount will ultimately be revised to 13 billion, the same media specifies.

Thanks to this reduction in the conviction, the Judicial Agency of the Kingdom has thus "saved 10 billion DH" for the administrations, notes the same source. Moreover, a peak was recorded in 2018, with more than 4 billion DH in monetary convictions.

This conviction demonstrates in more than one way that justice is "increasingly severe", particularly towards the public authorities, in matters of abusive expropriations.

Faced with the multiple cases of denunciation by citizens against the State for non-respect of private property, provisions are planned in the administration and now compel the State to respect the legality of its acts.