Once peaceful and safe, the city of Tan-Tan has seen a resurgence of petty theft and burglaries of varying degrees in recent years. But never, in the memory of a Tantaoui, has a crime as heinous as this week's been committed.

Indeed, the inhabitants woke up on Saturday to a heinous crime. It is the murder of a homeless person named Hamad.

A former auxiliary forces agent who turned to construction before losing his mind and abandoning everything to squat in a park and live alongside a pack of stray dogs, this former auxiliary forces agent had been lured by his attacker to the city's central cemetery. There, he dealt him several knife blows before disembowelling him to extract both kidneys.

The questions that the inhabitants of Tan-Tan are asking themselves today are: will the organ trade develop in their city to the point of claiming other victims? What is the police doing to prevent such crimes from recurring?