Achouhada Boulevard cleared of street vendors

Thursday, 9 October in the Hay Mohammadi district. Achouhada Boulevard, which leads to the "Kissaria - Hay Mohammadi", is empty. An unusual landscape for this artery that is usually teeming with life. The sellers, more precisely the owners of stalls (ferracha), as well as their tables, have simply disappeared. "The traders are not on Eid Al-Adha holidays. Their stalls were removed following a decision by the local authorities," a resident of Carrières Centrales tells us. This shanty town also housed "shop-shacks" that have been razed. "The demolition operation concerned the tables of the 'ferracha' as well as the unnumbered shacks installed or rather added illicitly," explains Said Atik, President of the Chihab association, which defends the right of the inhabitants of Carrières Centrales to have decent housing. Indeed, the bulldozers arrived at the scene at the beginning of the week. A…