The video, which was screened during a joint news conference held by Moroccan Interior and Foreign Ministers, showed violence and barbaric acts carried out by members of a criminal militia with criminal records against security forces who stepped in to free children and old people inside the camp.

    It shows citizens leaving the camp of their own free will onboard buses put at their disposal in response to the authorities' call, but violent individuals opposed the evacuation of the camp, threatening women and old people with knives and incendiary gas bottles.

    These violent individuals, who acted in a similar way as that of paramilitary militias operating in the Sahel, attacked the security forces who were dismantling empty tents.

    Pictures also show militias savagely getting their knives into the remains of some members of security forces killed during this intervention.

    Faced with this unprecedented violence, security forces kept restrained by strictly limiting themselves to conventional means of the maintenance of public order and motor-pump lorries to avoid civilian casualties.

    The militias’ violence reached its peak on the way to Laayoune where pictures show remains of members of security forces lynched and mutilated.

    In Laayoune, the militias who moved to the city from the camp continued violence acts, setting fire to cars, commercial buildings and public institutions.

    The video shows a member of the militia savagely beheading, in front of his accomplices, a member of security forces who was agonizing.

    No case of death was documented among the population, while ten members of security forces were killed.

Source:  MAP
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