The situation is more than explosive around Ceuta and Melilla. More than 9,000 Moroccans under contract with companies in the two Spanish enclaves are deprived of income due to the closure of the borders.
Since the closure of the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, thousands of smugglers no longer have sources of income. The development projects decided by the Moroccan government, as an alternative, are still awaiting.
The repatriation operation in Ceuta is not making everyone happy. A dozen Moroccans, blocked for 6 months, refuse to add their names to the list submitted by the authorities of the Spanish enclave.
The Criminal Court of Ceuta sentenced a young Moroccan to 3 and a half years in prison with a fine of 202,778 euros, for drug trafficking and threat to public health. The sentence was reduced due to the risk taken by the defendant to make the crossing.
Amina El Hboussi, a Moroccan, has been stranded in Ceuta for more than 7 months and has been the victim of the theft of her passport. The loss of this travel document shatters the dream of this 55-year-old woman who hoped to take advantage of the ongoing repatriation to join her disabled son in Morocco.
Drug traffickers are competing in means and ingenuity to transit their goods. In Ceuta , the Guardia Civil has managed to intercept a drone, which was transporting 4 kilograms of cannabis resin.
Faced with the drastic drop in cross-border trade revenues, the authorities of Ceuta want to take advantage of Brexit to supplant the Strait of Gibraltar in the exploitation of online gambling. To succeed in this challenge, they are offering facilities to certain specialized companies from the Rock.
Spain wants to send hundreds of Moroccan children illegally present on its territory back to their country. Thus, Madrid is seizing all the judicial and consular Moroccan authorities to put an end to the phenomenon of migrant minors.
The Tarajal (Ceuta) crossing was exceptionally reopened on Wednesday morning to allow around a hundred Moroccan women to return to the kingdom. Other groups will follow in the coming days.
The police and auxiliary forces of Fnideq have sealed off the entire coastal strip to prevent any attempt by young people to reach Ceuta.
The marriage of a Moroccan from the city of Martil, in the north of the country, and a Spaniard residing in Ceuta, is causing controversy on social networks.
The closure of borders has made thousands of Moroccan cross-border workers who worked in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla unemployed. This situation, added to the anguish of the coronavirus pandemic, makes their daily life painful.