Crackdown on the illegal occupation of public land

Some business and café owners in Massira Square, and on Mohammed V and FAR avenues, have seized communal public land and abusively occupied pavements that are, in principle, reserved for pedestrians. This has exacerbated the local residents. "It is becoming almost impossible to move around because of all these rows of chairs, tarpaulins, and tables piled up on the pavements. We feel besieged," says a resident of this district in an irritated tone. Indeed, the abuses are visible, particularly along these boulevards where pedestrians are forced to slalom between café tables and chairs or the workbenches of carpenters or mechanics who have completely taken over public spaces and left no passage for pavement users. As a result, circulation on the pavements has become a daily problem for pedestrians who no longer know where to turn to make their way through these cluttered spaces. They are n…