Vice-President of the Council of Agadir holds the authorities responsible for the contamination of Anza

Abdelghani Bouaichi, Vice-President of the Collective Council of Agadir in charge of Environment and Cleanliness, held the state authorities and the Regional Directorate of Environment and Energy Transition in Souss-Massa responsible for the growing pollution in the Anza area north of Agadir, as a result of the toxins and fumes produced by the factories that provoked protests by residents, civil society actors and political bodies.

The position of the deputy of Akhannouch in the Agadir clan came during the deliberations of the regular session of October 2026. The meeting was held on Wednesday, October 7, in the meeting hall in the municipal palace of the city, in response to the questions of the elected officials and the protests of civil activists who raised banners reading "Anza is suffocating".

Bouaichi explained that the problem of environmental pollution in Anza is in the hands of the local authorities and the Regional Directorate of Environment and Energy Transition to solve it, pointing out that the Agadir eco-community has repeatedly pleaded this problem, and closed the last leaks of Anza's industrial facilities at sea in December 2023. and proceeding to determine fines for violators of the campaign book amounting to about 20 thousand dirhams.

Bouaichi stated that he asked Governor Yazid Zalou, during his tenure as Chairman of the Administrative Council of the Independent Multiservice Agency (Ramsa), of which Bouaichi was a member, about the fate of the Panza fish industrial units, at a time when the Alyopolis industrial zone was created in the Drarka Free Zone and benefited the owners of those units. He added that the governor confirmed at the time that by 2016 no industrial unit would remain in the region, but nothing had changed by 2026. Calling on the city's deputies to plead under the dome of Parliament to make the coast of Anza a tourist area and not an industrial one.

Source: Lakm - https://lakome2.com/flash-infos/433107/