A few hours after the attempted intrusion organized by thousands of illegal migrants in Melilla at the level of Nador, the local authorities provided more details on this attack that caused deaths and several injuries.
Following the intervention of the Moroccan law enforcement forces to stop a massive assault of migrants on the city of Melilia, Spain has reacted, hailing "extraordinary cooperation" from Morocco.
A few hours after the assault of sub-Saharan migrants at the border of Melilla with Morocco, several media outlets have posted on social networks videos showing piles of migrants’ bodies on the ground. These images have sparked a wave of outrage from Internet users.
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) of Nador has announced the death of two Moroccan police officers during the recent assault of migrants at the Melilla border.
For several weeks, sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco have been arrested in the middle of the night or early morning by the police. A situation that worries not only these migrants, but also human rights defense associations.
Around a hundred Moroccan agents were injured on Saturday in preventing some 700 migrants from jumping over the Melilla fence.
The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, meets this Wednesday his Moroccan counterpart, Abdelouafi Laftit, at the ministry’s headquarters. Issues related to migration flows, police cooperation and the Marhaba Operation will be on the agenda of this meeting, which comes in the midst of a diplomatic crisis between Algeria and Spain.
The National Intelligence Center (CNI) has alerted the Spanish government to the massive arrival, in the coming months, of migrants from Algeria. Can the country exert migratory pressure on Spain?
The President of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, declared on Saturday that he "encouraged and authorized all the actions" of his Vice-President, Mabel Deu (PP), in the context of the return of minors to Morocco last August. The Spanish judge had suspended these returns, deemed "illegal", and filed a complaint against the Vice-President.
Finding a job to integrate into society and send money to their families in Morocco. This is the dream of most former underage migrants who have become adults in Spain.
The Audiencia Nacional has refused the extradition to Morocco of a Moroccan residing in the province of Almería, accused of belonging to a criminal group dedicated to migrant trafficking who would have illegally brought 79 people into Spain by boat.
The Civil Guard of Guipuzcoa (Basque Country) arrested four minor migrants, including Moroccans, in the town of Irun as they were trying to cross the Bidasoa river where many migrants had drowned in the past trying to reach France.