Casablanca (Morocco), May 25 (EFE).- The young people of Sidi Moumen, the neighborhood where the terrorists of the 2003 Casablanca attacks grew up, have a refuge where they can unleash their creativity with theater, dance or music. It is culture as an antidote to … radicalization, a successful formula that the Ali Zaoua Foundation applies in five cities in Morocco. The foundation, created ten years ago by the Moroccan film director Nabil Ayouch after telling the story of these jihadists in his film ‘The Horses of God’, has been promoting culture and art in marginalized neighborhoods in Morocco for a decade to fight against extremism in the ranks of young people and provide them with job opportunities. IMAGES: PABLO LÓPEZ CONTRERAS CONTAINS TOTALS FROM THE ASSOCIATION’S FOUNDER, MOROCCAN FILM DIRECTOR, NABIL AYOUCH, IN CASABLANCA, MOROCCO. FULL TRANSLATION: Nabil Ayouch, Moroccan film director and founder of the Ali Zaoua Foundation: 1.- “There is no magic formula to eradicate extremism, but there are preconditions that can allow young people who think they have no future to find other forms of expression beyond radicalization”. 2.- “These means of expression are what we give you in this Foundation and in these centers, it is a way that allows you to release anxieties and fears and that restlessness that sometimes gnaws from within and can raise dark and gloomy thoughts, but By externalizing them, they are transformed into something constructive through arts and culture.
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