Hundreds of young people went to the streets on Sunday, October 5 in several cities in Morocco to claim “the end of corruption” and the “departure” of the Aziz Akhannouch Government, the ninth day of the mobilization of the Genz 212 collective.
In Casablanca (West), the crowd has massaged in the popular district of El FIDA, where the slogans have shot as “Akhannouch goes, the government does not belong to it” or “people want the end of corruption”, according to Lives of the local press. Similar slogans have been disconnected in Tetouan (north), where hundreds of protesters gathered, according to the same sources.
“You have to start somewhere”
In Rabat, the mobilization was less important: one hundred people gathered before Parliament, singing “Long Long Lives to people”, “The government is corrupt” or “stops corruption.”
Since September 27, the demonstrations that require reforms in the health and public education sectors have been organized every night in the Call of the Genz 212 Collective, recently appeared on social networks and of which the founders are unknown. With more than 185,000 members in Discord, it is presented as a group of “free young people”, without political affiliation.
The mobilization was rooted in mid -September, after death, at the Public Hospital of Agadir (South), of eight pregnant women admitted by Cesarean sections.
“It is essential to reform the health and education sectors. We are aware that it will take time, but we must start somewhere,” said AFP Imran, 20, Sunday, apart from the demonstration in the capital.
Three protesters killed in Lqlia
If Genz 212 insists on the peaceful character of its manifestations, violence exploded on Wednesday night in several small locations.
Three people were killed by Gendarmes “in self -defense” while trying to “assault” a gendarmerie brigade in the village of Lqlia, near Agadir, to take weapons and ammunition, according to the authorities.
The next day, the Head of Government expressed the will of the Executive to “respond to the social demands” of young people and “their disposition to dialogue.”
Source: BFM TV
