Black Africans protest reoccuring violence against them in the streets of Tangiers. Photo by Yassine Lachiri for

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This video shows some of the violence that took place in Boukhalef on the night of August 29. The video was uploaded to the TVCHOT account on YouTube.

A video shared widely on Facebook shows the Senegalese national who lost his life in the violence that occurred on August 29. Photo Yassine Lachiri for

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A spate of violent stabbings took place this week in the Boukhalef neighbourhood of Tangiers, a residential area primarily populated by undocumented black Africans waiting to immigrate to Europe. Several residents, shaken up by the attacks, shared their experience with FRANCE 24…According to several witnesses contacted by FRANCE 24, the attacks took place on Friday in the Boukhalef neighbourhood at the edge of Tangiers. Although the attackers were not identified, all of the persons targeted were black Africans, most of them undocumented. According to the Tangiers police, fourteen people were injured and one Senegalese national was found with his throat slit close to the area of the attacks. On an amateur video uploaded to Facebook, this victim can be seen lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood.