Tense situation in Sidi Ifni

Four years ago, the bloody events of Sidi Ifni broke out.These events against a backdrop of social malaise had, as we remember, cost the Qatari satellite channel Al Jazeera the closure of its Rabat office and the hearing of its representative in Morocco by the justice system.Even if, at the time, precarious solutions had been found to mitigate the popular anger that had shaken Sidi Ifni and the Ait Baamrane region, the evil persisted and the calm remained very fragile. This is what the authorities had to observe, on Sunday 25 March. It only took the arrest of a young man to turn the city upside down. Everything started with clashes, on Saturday evening, in front of a police station in the city. These clashes degenerated into stone-throwing and the setting on fire of tyres and other rubber objects, causing the cordoning off of several areas of the city by the security forces.The reason i…