The protests convened on Tuesday at Morocco They have ended in disturbances and violent clashes with the police in different locations in the country, especially in the south. It is the fourth consecutive day that thousands of people go out to protest in more than a dozen cities to demand improvements in education and health, more basic services and end corruption. A movement, which has led the Moroccan Z generation. Since Saturday, the authorities have responded with hundreds of arrests and dispersion of the participants.
After three days of peaceful protests, with arrests and police charges in some cities, such as more remarkable incidents, on Tuesday night, some of the more than ten protests that have taken place in the country, have resulted in clashes violent at several points, with stones against the police and aggressions. In the city of Ait Amira and Inzegan, protesters have set on fire and destroyed several police vehicles, according to the videos released by the local press. Currently, the number of protesters or police officers wounded during the night is unknown, nor the total detainees.
Gene generation
In the city of Oujdain the eastern part of the country, a man has been injured after being hit by police van, according to the MAP, the state news agency. After circulating a video of the moment of the incident with rumors of his death, the agency has quickly denied that he died. “The person in question was injured in this accident with injuries of various gravity, mainly in the lower extremities,” added the agency, citing the authorities of the region. “Currently, it is under medical follow -up, with a stable state of health and without their life is in danger at the moment,” they have specified.
After protests, the group Moroccan z generation, It has claimed, through a statement in networks, that its and objective is “health for all, dignified education and a decent life for all Moroccans without exception. This is a simple and fair claim; it is a right that we do not demand with extravagance or empty words, but with conscience, and responsibility”. In addition to criticizing the police response of these last days, they have defended that vandalism or disturbances are not allowed in the manifestations that promote: “Do not move away from peace and preserve your dignity and dignity of the movement,” they added.
Arrests
Since Saturday the authorities have arrested a hundreds of people who have tried to demonstrate, under the pretext that they were not authorized. In Rabat alone, according to the Moroccan association for Human Rights, they have arrested more than three hundred. Many have been released, at dawn, after several hours in curator. Another 37, arrested in the capital, have been taken on Tuesday before the Prosecutor’s Office. According to EFE, the Public Ministry decided to process 34 of them provisional (with bonds between 280 and 470 euros) already 3 in preventive detention, including a woman.
Both inside, outside the country, numerous civil society associations have criticized the arrests and the actions of the police and the authorities. This Tuesday morning has also done so Amnesty Internationalwhich has asked the country’s authorities to guarantee “respect for the right to protest and immediately and unconditionally release all persons detained for exercising their peaceful reunion right.”
Institutional reaction
The three political parties that make up the Government Moroccan met on Tuesday to try to articulate a response to protests. “The Government reaffirms its good listening and understanding of social demands,” they have defended in a statement. They have also added their “disposition to a positive and responsible response”, through institutional dialogue. Precisely, in these days, chants have been chanted asking for the resignation of the president of the Government, Aziz Ajanuch. Its executive has been the target of the different protests that have been experienced in the country in recent months, either by the state of hospitals, or for the “neglect” that dozens of affected from the earthquake of two years ago have denounced.
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