The neighborhood's youth played a central role in the 2011 revolution which overthrew President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali because they aspired to change their difficult living conditions, but without success. If traces of the main contributors to the popular uprising are still present on the walls of the houses and surrounding alleys, infrastructure projects in fact remain absent in the region till this day, which contributed to the deterioration of the situation and the spread of crime, with drug trafficking and a high level of frustration and deprivation among young people, most of whom choose illegal migration. Militant Islamist movements are also developing and certain jihadist cells are emerging, especially among the youth.
