by Sebastian Usher BBC correspondent in Morocco

While people in Morocco are keen to see the perpetrators of May's Casablanca suicide bombings put on trial, there is a fear that the legal process may not be entirely fair.

The trials have been criticised for not being transparent enough

The market in the Casablanca suburb of Sidi Moumen is a jumble of doors, mattresses, fruit carts, cassette stalls and donkeys, surrounded by mounds of rubbish.

The corrugated iron and breeze block shacks of a shanty town stretch out all around. There is little protection from the dust, the heat and the flies.

There is little protection, too, from the pressures of the security services - who have been keeping a closer watch since the bombings - or from the Islamist scouts looking for the latest recruit from the legions of disaffected, jobless youths.

This is where the suicide bombers, who killed 45 people in five simultaneous attacks in Casablanca last May, came from. This is where a stream of arrests were made after the attacks.

So how do people in Sidi Moumen feel about the trials? Do they think justice is being done?

Poverty

Many were not prepared to speak because we were followed by security officers, both in uniform and plain-clothes.

However, one said: "It has to be said first that those on trial are very poor but they are also outlaws who wanted to see the destruction of our country."

It's trying to be more transparent ... but standards are not totally respected Journalist Driss Ksikes

Another said: "The problem stems from poverty and then unemployment and that produce the Islamists, but the root is poverty."

One man was concerned that justice may not have been done in all cases.

"We know of course that some of them carried out the attacks.... but there are many who haven't done anything at all and were sentenced to 20 years in prison," he said.

'New image'

Journalist Driss Ksikes, who works for one of Morocco's leading magazines, has followed the situation from the beginning.

He is also concerned that the trials may not be as fair as they could be.

"The debate in the courts doesn't go beyond the police file, and that means that the trial itself is quite linked by the police file," he said, agreeing that the police evidence would not be questioned.

"I feel that Morocco is now trying to give a new image of a country which has justice," he added. "It's trying to be more transparent about what's happening here but for the time-being the standards are not totally respected."

Doubts

Young people at the university in Rabat - which faces the court of appeal where most of the trials are taking place - share similar concerns to those in Sidi Moumen.

"It's right what's happening, they are being dealt with by the law. They are murderers who killed innocent people," said one.

"We have to arrest the terrorists right where they live. They have to be made to understand that terrorism is finished here and that no-one is allowed to harm our country," said another.

Five simultaneous attacks rocked Casablanca

But some had their doubts.

"I don't think it's right," said one man. "It's not properly done, there is no evidence, I don't understand what is going on over there."

"We have two TV stations here but they show nothing, nothing about what's going on in the trials because they are afraid of showing what is really going on, so how can we form an opinion when we're not given any information?" said a woman.

Even though it seems a world away from Sidi Moumen, the young students outside Rabat university express the same doubts about the trustworthiness of the trials.