Sidi Moumen

Sidi Moumen, Casablanca.

A trip into the suburb of Casablanca where grown up several members of the islamic terrorism. 2008

Sidi Moumen is a commune in the suburbs of Casablanca, Morocco, Inhabited by 170 000 inhabitants. A dusty wasteland of low crumbling houses, tangled lines of washing and rubbish heaps.
In this shanty town are born and grown up several members of the islamic terrorism, who in these last years has been the pratogonists of many terrorist attacks worldwide. From Sidi Moumen arrives some of the marocchinian men who performed the terrible attacks of 11 march 2004 in Madrid. They come always from there the four terrorists who in 2003 made themselves explode in a hotel and a restaurant in Casablanca, provocating the death of 40 people. recently, the 11th march 2007, a young man did a kamikaze attack in a cybercafe, placed in Sidi Moumen. One mounth later, the 14th aprile 2007, two kamikazes exploded while they were trying to reach the US cultural centre in Casablanca.
"Now Sidi Moumen is changing, although there is still a severe lack of services," said Zahidi. "Poverty and joblessness were still a serious problem", he said, "but better to be idle in a new apartment than a slum".
King Mohammed has announced the construction of 130,000 social housing units worth $1.83 billion by 2012.

Pietro Paolini

Sidi Moumen, Casablanca.

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