Charivari in Guelmim

A few days ago, some local electronic sites published a photo-montage accompanied by a commentary accusing the municipal council of Guelmim of wanting to impose Amazigh culture, by building arches at the gates of the city whose architecture would represent Tifinagh characters, proving the Berber belonging of this city, considered the gateway to the desert. These publications were denounced by the provincial council which, in a press release of which Libé received a copy, warns against such actions which aim at the division of the components of the city of Guelmim. These inhabitants, specifies the press release, rich in their Hassani and Berber components, have cohabited harmoniously since the dawn of time, without consideration of ethnic belonging and making the diversity of these components a wealth put to good use on the cultural and socio-economic levels. The press release stresses t…