With the backdrop of 35 anniversary of the Frente Polisario, the Saharawi town of Dakhla has lived this weekend "serious and hard" clashes between pro-independence Sahrawi and Moroccan civil population, as reported to ELMUNDO. is from the former Villa Cisneros Bachir Lejfauni Sahrawi activist. Local authorities, through official news agency Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP), were accused of rioting and vandalism to the "Polisario separatists, while organizations such as the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Human Rights Violations (ASVDH) blame them to "encouraged by Moroccan security forces." The conflict erupted on Friday between supporters of both attitude and as a citizen of the MAP 53, Hamid Charfi (vegetable vendor originally from Marrakech) was fatally struck Saturday by a Toyota Land Cruiser with five people inside .
An outrage that qualify in the MAP of "intentional", and which also injured, according to the agency, Brahim Ouchi, workers aged 22 native of the province of Meknes, "which remained in a coma." Moroccan officials said four vehicles were burned with gas canisters and "separatist" attacked and looted shops, a bank and a credit bureau.
According to his account, the balance is 17 wounded. Sahrawi sources, however, still run no casualty figures, but said they were destroyed doors and windows of more than thirty houses of the city's activists and dozens of vehicles were damaged were FIRE OR after throwing stones. The Moroccan version suggests that the separatists "tried to amplify a fight between youths to attack the climate of stability in the region" in the words of the wali (governor) of Oued Eddahab Hamid Chabar.
These days are celebrated in Dakhla Sea and Desert Festival, which was suspended after the riots. "As before, on Friday there were demonstrations in favor of self-determination in some neighborhoods of the city," says Lejfauni. According to his testimony, Saturday morning, once the last concert, "many groups turned to Moroccans slogans in favor of Mohamed VI and the Moroccan Sahara to areas of the city with the Saharawi activists and began attacking their cars and their homes.
" Lejfauni ensures that those attacks were followed by the forces of order "total passivity" until the Saharawi left to defend themselves with sticks and stones, "that's when the police intervened, which until then had done nothing." 
An outrage that qualify in the MAP of "intentional", and which also injured, according to the agency, Brahim Ouchi, workers aged 22 native of the province of Meknes, "which remained in a coma." Moroccan officials said four vehicles were burned with gas canisters and "separatist" attacked and looted shops, a bank and a credit bureau.
According to his account, the balance is 17 wounded. Sahrawi sources, however, still run no casualty figures, but said they were destroyed doors and windows of more than thirty houses of the city's activists and dozens of vehicles were damaged were FIRE OR after throwing stones. The Moroccan version suggests that the separatists "tried to amplify a fight between youths to attack the climate of stability in the region" in the words of the wali (governor) of Oued Eddahab Hamid Chabar.
These days are celebrated in Dakhla Sea and Desert Festival, which was suspended after the riots. "As before, on Friday there were demonstrations in favor of self-determination in some neighborhoods of the city," says Lejfauni. According to his testimony, Saturday morning, once the last concert, "many groups turned to Moroccans slogans in favor of Mohamed VI and the Moroccan Sahara to areas of the city with the Saharawi activists and began attacking their cars and their homes.
" Lejfauni ensures that those attacks were followed by the forces of order "total passivity" until the Saharawi left to defend themselves with sticks and stones, "that's when the police intervened, which until then had done nothing."
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