Moroccans ask for their right to smuggle, penetrate the Algerian borders

Events of the Moroccan village of Sidi Boubakar, which is adjacent to the village of Al-Abed, in Albouihi municipality, and the department of Sidi El Djilali, which is away from Tlemcen province by about 100 kilometers (western Algeria), came to reveal new facts about the non-diplomatic policy of Morocco through its official channels and institutions, against its neighbor Algeria.

Echorouk was the only media that traveled to the place, and despite arriving after breaking up the sit-in, where the movement was normal in the village of al-Abed, amid severe cold, but young people chose cafes to spend their evening being completely indifferent to what is happening on the other side of the border, where the patrol elements of the national gendarmerie and border guards were determined to protect the borders in a continuous routine.

Local sources told Echorouk that the real reason for what happened and the resort of population of the village of Sidi Boubakar towards Algeria, where several families have family relationships, but the Moroccan regime, which promised to open a port in the fence which was built by the Kingdom of Morocco, along its border, a fence that was infiltrated by openings in several axes, which were left specifically for smuggling.

After the false promises of Morocco and its recruits, residents of the village of Sidi Boubakar said they receive discriminatory treatment by the authorities of their kingdom, which forced them to protest and try to penetrate the border and flee to Algeria in order to improve their living conditions, especially as the Moroccan region of Djerrada is living the same situation of al-Abed village.

If the Algerian village lived throughout a long period of time of producing zinc before Morocco slammed its doors, the Moroccan village of Djerrada, contributed, for over a quarter of century- to the Moroccan Treasury with mountains of coal, but the difference is that al-Abed was able to overcome the total reliance on the zinc mine, and created for its youth and its inhabitants different jobs.

However, the Moroccan counterpart returned centuries back after the decline in coal prices in the world markets; as workers were fired and received low compensations, which were lost in the boats of death and other needs of their families in a very short time.

They find themselves living with the largesse of Algerian border, before all it ends after Algeria dug trenches along the border, and the Kingdom of Morocco added electronic fences and increased their isolation.