Outrage in Morocco as Official Drags Chained Man Through Streets of Safi

The indignation was at its height on social networks at the sight of this scene that defies human understanding. The events took place on the sidelines of a mobilization of street vendors who, since July 24, 2019, have been denouncing their disqualification by the local authorities of an organized souk, as part of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH).

The street vendors, installed for about twenty years, were not taken into consideration by the project in question. This explains their uprising to make themselves heard. The worst, according to them, is that "no place has been reserved for them", confides one of the merchants to safigoud.com, a local media.

The cries and uprisings of the traders in the Corsa district of Safi will have served no purpose in changing the new vision. Worse, they were surprised by the confiscation of several of their carts. That’s when "the street vendors preferred to respond by chaining themselves to their goods, to prevent their livelihood from being seized," the same source indicates.

However, it was without counting on the obstinacy of the caïd of the 8th district of Safi, who, with implacable rigor, proceeded to the arrest of certain street vendors. Among them, the most resistant refused to get rid of his chain. So, he will be, without mercy, taken away in a van, under the order of the caïd. The latter, accompanied by auxiliary forces agents, dragged the street vendor in question, by the end of the chained chain around his neck. A scene that provoked the most vehement reactions and alarmed the web.