Campaign to fight against the occupation of public space

Will this campaign be the right one to tackle the city's wholesalers, café owners, and street vendors? In any case, it was time to take concrete measures to overcome this phenomenon that continues to gain ground. The occupation of public space by street vendors is taking on worrying proportions today. A raid by local authorities in Sidi Bennour strongly surprised the traders and carters operating illegally. They had transformed the public highway into a real open-air Souk. Several police officers and auxiliary force agents, municipal trucks, and two bulldozers were dispatched to the site to clean up these areas, which had become completely anarchic. The occupants of the streets and boulevards did not expect an operation of such magnitude. In less than a few hours, the authorities managed to demolish the stalls whose owners were illegally occupying public space, under the astonished gaze…