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As victims of a repressive town policy, some inhabitants have no other choice but to appropriate to themselves public spaces in the souq of Derb Cuba in Casablanca in Morocco, privatised by a form of enclosure, illegal practices concerning the drinking of alcohol and the spatial circumstances of illegal dwellings. The study of these spaces reveals an unexpected social reality related to the consumption habits of two drinkers’ groups, one drinking brandy (mahia) and the other industrial alcohol, to the extent that these groups get material help from local residents. They are therefore heavily dependent on their locality. Moreover, the fact, common in Morocco, that drinkers of industrial alcohol are the object of severe criticism forces the drinkers of brandy to remain apart from them, each group partitioned the one from the other by its own codes, and this puts in jeopardy the hopes of the local inhabitants to establish a new and peaceful order.