Marrakech wants to end begging

The government wants to fight more against begging in all its forms in Marrakech, announced Abdelouafi Laftit, the Minister of the Interior, specifying that his department will spare no effort to achieve this objective.

In his written response to a question from MP Aziza Boujrida of the Haraki group, Laftit indicated that during the first nine months of the year, 2,514 cases related to begging were processed, which led to the arrest of 2,557 people, including 181 foreigners, mostly Sub-Saharan. In this batch, 2,020 people were placed in police custody, and 541 were released on instructions from the competent public prosecutor’s office, he added, specifying that among them, there are 2,039 adults and 518 minors.