re: Hundreds of masked men rampage streets, beating refugee kids in revenge attack

to be fair, Morrocco is having a problem with these kids too

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Meanwhile, those representing criminality in the city have started glamorizing crime on social media.

Pictures of uncovered individuals, carrying swords and knives or showing off what seem to be stolen possessions have swept Moroccan social media. This has further amplified the anxiety that Moroccans, particularly Casablanca residents, have started feeling recently because of the rise of criminality.

The war on crime in Casablanca has already started on social media. Pages have been created to call on the Ministry of Interior to invest more efforts in combating crime in the economic capital.

Moroccan mobsters have also seemingly decided to retaliate. Many Facebook pages have been created with apparently one objective in common: to celebrate a collective sense of law-breaking.

“The streets of Casablanca suffer from real insecurity,” reads the text of a petition recently launched on Avaaz, “and sword attacks are multiplying in a disturbing way.”

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This picture seems oddly familiar, just maybe a little overexposed