The Spanish military concludes a live-fire exercise this Friday in the Gulf of Cádiz, at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. Air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles are being launched against aerial and naval targets.
The Royal Navy is due to take possession this Thursday, September 17, of the Moulay Hassan I patrol vessel built in Spain. The signing will go ahead, but the official ceremony bringing together the authorities of both countries has been cancelled following the Sebta crisis.
Entering Ceuta is not enough to reach mainland Spain. Migrants who remained in the enclave after the mass arrivals in July are now paying smugglers up to 9000 euros to cross the Strait of Gibraltar clandestinely.
Caught off guard by a patrol in the Bay of Cadiz, the pilot of a boat carrying 800 kilos of Moroccan hashish threw himself into the water. The vessel, left running, nearly ran him over before his rescue.
Encounters between orcas and boats are multiplying between Morocco and Spain . Faced with this increase, Spanish authorities are launching a new prevention campaign and urging navigators not to immobilize their vessels in case of approach.
A Spanish tourist recovered his lost wallet in Rabat with all his money intact. This unexpected repatriation took place under high security, with the item traveling to Andalusia via a diplomatic pouch.
Four Moroccans and a Dutchman have been actively sought since July 2024 for the kidnapping and savage torture of a trafficker in Cadiz. Despite the seriousness of the facts, the slowness of the procedure allowed the suspects to flee to Tangier before their formal identification.
A Spanish government study confirms the technical feasibility of a 65-kilometre railway tunnel linking Spain and Morocco. This colossal project, estimated at €8.5 billion, could see its first construction work begin by 2030.
While he had taken refuge in Tangier, Morocco for seven months, Karim El Baqqali, suspected of the death of two civil guards in the port of Barbate (Cadiz) last February, surrendered to the Spanish authorities last week.
Spain is considering issuing an international arrest warrant against the four occupants of the Moroccan drug boat that collided with a Civil Guard patrol boat on February 9, killing two agents of the Guardia Civil in the town of Barbate in Cadiz.
A Moroccan transporting 115 kilos of hashish in a narco-boat died during a high-speed chase with a Spanish customs patrol boat, on the coast of Caños de Meca, in the municipality of Barbate (Cádiz).
The regional court of Cadiz, based in Gibraltar, has requested heavy prison sentences against 26 members of the drug trafficking network whose Moroccan Abdellah El Hadj Sadeck El Menbri, nicknamed "Messi of hashish" , would be the leader.