Ten years later: The Casablanca attacks still mark people's minds

On 16 May 2003, just ten years ago, 12 suicide bombers from Sidi Moumen carried out a series of bomb attacks in Casablanca, killing 33 people. The targets were a large hotel, an Italian restaurant, a Jewish community centre and its cemetery, as well as the Belgian consulate.The lack of prospects for young people, then pointed out, is still relevant in this shanty town of 400,000 inhabitants located in the heart of the metropolis.“The changes we want are job-creating projects for the young people here, so that they don't take the wrong path,” continues Hamid, 42, father of twins, who shares a small makeshift dwelling with eight members of his family.The Rhamna zone, inside the shanty town, is a collection of dilapidated corrugated iron shacks, criss-crossed by narrow alleys devoid of infrastructure. Further on, a small herd of sheep and cows rummages through a pile of rubbish.“In every n…