Ouled Ziane, a migrant shelter trap in Casablanca | Video

Casablanca (Morocco), Jan 17 (EFE).- (Camera: Mohamed Siali) They cook with firewood, wash clothes in buckets and sleep on cardboard. This is how hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans live in Ouled Ziane, a Casablanca neighbourhood that has been hosting migrants for a decade.

They are part of the tens of thousands of migrants who are looking for a life in Morocco while waiting to cross into Europe.

VIDEO SHOT ON JANUARY 12 OF OULED ZIANE, A NEIGHBORHOOD OF CASABLANCA, MOROCCO.

SOUNDBITES OF Beyeth Gueck, president of the NGO "Bank de Solidarité":

"They have come to the association and have received blankets and clothes, but the police come by every time and destroy (everything) and we return to zero (...). They break everything, which makes life difficult for us. For this reason, I want to launch an appeal to the international community and the Moroccan authorities that the situation of migrants in Casablanca is difficult and abominable. It is not right to see human beings like this."

ALPHA, MIGRANT FROM CAMEROON:

"We know very well that we do not want to be here. We want (to reach) Europe and sooner or later we will enter Europe or one day we will return to our country. We have not come to build these shelters (tents), sleep, beg and tire Moroccans. We don't want this either."

Metadata

Date: 17/01/2023 12:00 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Politics » Migration
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 214 seconds
Reference: 7001231019
Relevance: Normal