Overview

• Local authorities and state media said security forces used firearms to repel an attempt to storm a police facility in Lqliaa near Agadir, leaving two dead and prompting a judicial probe.
• Morocco’s Interior Ministry reported 263 security personnel and 23 civilians injured on Tuesday night, with 409 people taken into custody and 142 police vehicles and 20 private cars set on fire.
• Unrest widened to cities including Salé and Tangier and towns across the Souss region, where banks, shops and administrative buildings were looted or vandalized, according to officials and local reports.
• GenZ 212, the leaderless collective organizing via Discord, TikTok and Instagram, urged peaceful action and said it opposes violence, even as authorities alleged some protesters used knives and Molotov cocktails.
• The Moroccan Association for Human Rights estimated more than 1,000 arrests since Saturday, and the government signaled talks on health and hospital reforms with a meeting led by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch scheduled for Thursday.