The Moroccan border police have stopped requiring stamps on passports from travelers to and from Ceuta. A measure welcomed by the association of residents of the autonomous city.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, clarified his country’s position on the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, stating on Thursday before Congress that these two territories definitively belong to Spain.
In a letter addressed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Morocco reiterates its claims on Ceuta and Melilla.
The military Driss Amar Mohamed, 39, was coldly shot dead on Monday in the El Principe neighborhood of Ceuta. Three hooded men, drug traffickers, shot him while he was in his brother’s car, parked in a garage, before fleeing.
Several National Police officers in Sebta were attacked by stone throwing on the night of Friday to Saturday, as they were conducting an operation in the Principe Alfonso neighborhood. They were taken to the city’s university hospital for treatment.
The Civil Guard prevented on Monday a group of Moroccan minors from returning to Morocco. Two of them were arrested on the beach of Tarajal, next to the border, and four others, a little further away.
An attempt to traffic in foreign currency was thwarted on Saturday evening by the customs services operating at Bab Sebta, in northern Morocco.
Moroccan police at the Tarajal border do not allow the return to the kingdom of Moroccan migrants who have illegally entered Spain. The reason given: the health crisis related to Covid-19.
The Moroccan authorities arrested on Friday two young residents of Ceuta who were trying to smuggle at least six migrants from the beach of Fnideq to Spain.
If Morocco authorizes the opening of a commercial customs office at the Tarajal border, only Moroccan products would be transported to Sebta, according to sources from the Moroccan Regional Customs Directorate.
Online gambling is not regulated in Ceuta, making the autonomous city one of the preferred destinations for companies to offer this service, but above all to launder money in Morocco.
Nearly 300 migrants have crossed the strait via jet ski to illegally enter Spain from Morocco. A much faster, more expensive and effective means of reaching the Spanish coast in an area under close Moroccan surveillance.