In Morocco, there is a kind of malaise this summer in the tourism industry. The northern cities, especially Tangier and Martil, are experiencing a drop in tourist attendance. Concerned, the deputy Salwa El Bardaï, from the Justice and Development parliamentary group, has addressed a written question to Fatima-Zahra Ammor, Minister of Tourism, Handicrafts and Social and Solidarity Economy.
Vacationers in the northern cities of Morocco have expressed their discontent in recent days with the exaggerated rise in prices in cafes and restaurants.
Contrary to previous years, tourists have not flocked to the northern cities of Morocco this summer. The situation is particularly worrying in Martil, which used to attract many visitors and Moroccans living abroad during the summer season.
A fast food restaurant in Martil was the source of a large-scale food poisoning this week. More than 27 people were affected, showing symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain just a few hours after their meal.
National tourists and Moroccans living abroad who plan to spend their summer vacations in northern Morocco are ending up renouncing their plans due to the exaggerated rise in the prices of tourist services in the region.
The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tétouan has just sentenced a Moroccan woman to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband.
The municipal councilor of the Constitutional Union party (opposition) in Martil, Mohamed Achkour, announced his refusal to approve a partnership agreement project aimed at strengthening the city’s wastewater treatment network, on the grounds that it is written in French and not in Arabic or Amazigh, the two official languages of the kingdom.
A vast real estate fraud case involving 21 people, including a well-known notary in the region and former mayors of the commune of Martil, is in the hands of an investigating judge at the Tetouan Court of Appeal.
The local authorities of the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq have launched a vast operation to free up the public maritime domain. Dozens of illegally installed establishments on the beaches have been demolished.
The Moroccan Ministry of the Interior has ordered an investigation to determine the responsibilities regarding the constructions erected on the public maritime domain, which are the subject of demolitions in several cities of the kingdom.
The investigating judge of the Tetouan Court of Appeal has decided to prosecute three police officers from the Martil police station (prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq) in the case of the death of a person in custody.
Arrested in 2012 in Martil for the murder of her husband, whose body she had thrown into a well adjoining their home, a woman is accused of having also murdered their son during the same period. Bones of the boy were recently found by investigators.