The Hay Mohammadi "Joutia" cleared of its occupants

Hay Mohammadi has just experienced a new operation to clear public land. Indeed, a vacant lot in front of the Mohammed V hospital and the Hassan II Project residences, transformed for years into an anarchic "Joutia" (flea market), has just been cleared. The market will give way to a new project that took a long time to materialise.Towards the end of 2012, this plot of land, belonging to the city but illegally occupied by flea market vendors, was to be dedicated to the construction of a mosque. As soon as the news was announced, the merchants expressed their dissatisfaction. They argued their position by the fact that for years they had been displaying their goods on this land and that it was their only livelihood. The project was thus temporarily suspended.According to the president of the Hay Mohammadi district, the mosque construction project, whose work was supposed to start last Apr…