The Guardia Civil has arrested 14 people in Murcia, Almeria and Jaen, presumed members of a network, accused of having defrauded families of Moroccan and Algerian migrants who died at sea, promising them the repatriation of the bodies of the latter. Civil servants are being investigated as part of this case.
The administrative chamber of the National Court has just rejected the appeal filed by a young Moroccan, an asylum seeker, against the decision of the Ministry of the Interior refusing him the right to asylum and subsidiary protection.
The Civil Guard has arrested 14 people, members of a network of forgers who make the families of missing migrants at sea believe that they are able to provide them with all the necessary documents for the repatriation of the latter.
The Moroccan authorities have decided to strengthen security along the border with Ceuta, particularly in Fnideq and Belyounech. This, in order to limit attempts of illegal immigration.
The Royal Gendarmerie has arrested seven elements of the auxiliary forces in the Nador region for corruption related to illegal immigration.
Some 431,000 migrants, including 31,000 Moroccans, were expelled from the territory of the European Union (EU) in 2022, according to a recent Eurostat report entitled "Migration and Asylum in Europe 2023".
Sub-Saharan and Moroccan migrants have found a new modus operandi. They board flights at Casablanca airport bound for Latin American countries, then take advantage of the stopover at Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport to apply for asylum. A situation that has led to overcrowding in the asylum centers at the Spanish airport.
Marouane Ettoujguani, a 21-year-old Moroccan, lost his life, crushed by a freight convoy, as he tried to illegally immigrate to France from Spain via the tunnel connecting the Spanish town of Portbou to Cerbère (France).
The border between Algeria and Morocco was exceptionally opened this week to repatriate the body of a 28-year-old Moroccan migrant who drowned in Algeria.
The Algerian authorities decided on Wednesday, in coordination with the Moroccan authorities, to proceed with the repatriation of 40 young Moroccan migrants detained in Algeria, via the border post "Zouj Bghal".
Elements of the National Gendarmerie of Mostaganem (Algeria) arrested 25 migrants, including 24 of Moroccan nationality.
Following information relayed on social networks, the Moroccan authorities have reinforced their presence around the Sebta border crossing and the surrounding coastal areas.