Casablanca not formalised until 1910. Under the French rule, Muslim anti-Jewish riots occurred in 1908. The famous 1942 film "Casablanca" (starring Humphrey Bogart) underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers. The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Spaniard, Czech, Norwegian, Austrian, Bulgarian, Russian, and some other nationalities). Europeans formed almost half the population. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A bomb attack on 25 December 1953 (Christmas Day) caused 16 deaths. Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast)
Olympique de Casablanca Olympique de Casablanca Club Olympique de Casablanca () or CO Casablanca for a short, is a defunct Moroccan football club that was based in Casablanca. The club played its home games at the "Stade du COC" The club was founded in 1904 under the name of CRUSH Casablanca. It changed the name after into CSNAC Casablanca and in the 1980s into CLAS Casablanca (Centrale Laitière Association Sportive de Casablanca). In 1991, it took the name of Club Olympique de Casablanca but in 1995, the club was dissolved by merging with Raja Casablanca. However many other sections still yet play such