Violence hits Tetouan University .. and the President of Abdelmalek Essaadi: "factional conflict"

The Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences in the city of Martil, affiliated with Abdelmalek Essaadi University, experienced violent confrontations yesterday, Thursday, between two leftist student factions, resulting in injuries and the vandalism of a number of cars in the vicinity of the university; while there is talk of arrests being carried out among those involved in the violence.

Student sources spoke to the Hespress electronic newspaper about arrests of 6 students by security authorities against the backdrop of the events witnessed by the university, at a time when a security source acknowledged the existence of arrests without mentioning their number.

The security source, who spoke to the newspaper, justified the recorded arrests by the violence and damage recorded in the vicinity of the faculty, which sparked a wave of questions about the reasons and motives that led to the emergence of these events.

Bouchta Moumni, President of Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetouan, confirmed in a statement to the Hespress electronic newspaper that the events witnessed by the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences in Martil "resulted from a conflict between student factions that began on January 1st, outside the university walls".

Moumni considered yesterday's events, Thursday, to be "a continuation of the violence and the old ideological conflict between the two factions over who will take the lead in the university arena", denying the validity of linking the events to the exams, which he said are taking place in the Faculty of Law and students are taking them, praising the security intervention that put an end to the violence, according to his expression.

In his reading of the events witnessed by the city of Tetouan, sociologist Ahmed Chrak noted that violence in the university space "cannot be explained"; because it is violence between "two leftist factions that are close in their view of the world and in ideological perceptions".

Chrak added, in a statement to the Hespress electronic newspaper, that this violence "could have been (justified) by ideological disagreement, by the perception of the world, and by the appreciation of political and cultural affairs; but today we find no objective justification for it, and we can find a subjective justification for it".

The Moroccan sociologist added, explaining that this subjective justification is manifested in "the failure of thought to dialogue and tolerate, and in persuasion and conviction, and calm dialogue; which led to the practice of violence without meaning", pointing out that it is violence that can be explained by "a kind of dogmatism or certainty in ideas between two factions".

The same speaker continued, explaining "each faction believes that it is the one that possesses the truth, and that its perceptions of the student situation and the relationship of students, evaluations, and exams belong to this perception or that; which led to collision and violence".

Chrak did not stop there; but went on to say: "When I heard about such violence, I tried to link it to the current societal contexts, but I did not find a clear justification for that in the societal context", pointing out that this violence remains "isolated violence in one university and has no title other than thuggery".

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