On June 23, 1973, a demonstration set off from Place Gaucheret in Schaerbeek, Brussels. The procession quickly grew in numbers, responding to the slogans shouted in unison: “We want the truth about Ghanam’s death!” Earlier that year, on May 7, at around 4:30 a.m., Mohamed Ghanam, a young Moroccan man, aged 22, lost his life. He was with a friend on Boulevard Léopold III, the same street where car doors had been forced that night, when he was struck by a bullet shot from a distance by the local police. He died on the way to the hospital. Ghanam’s death provoked anger and indignation among the Maghrebi community in Brussels who felt increasingly threatened in public spaces. Can a policeman kill someone because he suspects him of trying to steal a car? Is it possible for a policeman to feel threatened from 25 meters distance, claiming self-defense? Why does the press want to cover this up? People wondered. On May 15, the Ghanam Truth Committee was formed to respond to the need for justice. It issued an open letter to the mayor of Schaerbeek, Roger Nols, denouncing the increasing brutality of the Schaerbeek police’s arbitrary hunt on immigrant workers and demanding a form of accountability from the mayor. The need to express their anger and rage grew and culminated in what would become the first mobilization denouncing prevailing racism, carried by the Maghrebi community in Brussels. Speeches recalled the dire living conditions, daily regressions, and the need to unite to put an end to growing intimidations. It was an unprecedented mobilization from which the trade unions and traditional anti-racist structures were largely absent, showing for the first time the combativeness of the Maghrebi community in Brussels.