Mohamed Ouskir, 26, was luckier than his compatriot Badr. He was rescued by a fishing boat and transferred to the Mdiq hospital. Both were reported missing at sea while trying to swim to Spain from Ceuta . Their families were desperately searching for them.
The idea defended by the spokesman of the far-right party Vox, Carlos Verdejo, to erect a wall on the border to protect Ceuta from a "revolution in Morocco" surprised all the political groups in the local Assembly. After the debates, the motion was rejected.
Two young Moroccans, immigration candidates, tried to swim across Ceuta to reach Spain. Without news of them for a few days, their desperate families are asking for help.
In 2020, 11.5% of irregular migrants in Catalonia are Moroccan nationals. They also represent the largest group of unemployed immigrants. This is revealed in a report by the Information Center for Foreign Workers (CITE).
Fearing the exclusion of migrants during the Covid-19 vaccination, advocacy organizations are calling for the authorities to be more flexible in order to include all migrants who wish to be vaccinated in this national vaccination operation.
In Melilla , the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, added to the closure of the borders with Morocco, has paralyzed the activities of migrant women who practice prostitution as their only means of survival. This, despite the emergency plan put in place by the authorities.
A young Guinean found himself in prison in Morocco for migrant trafficking, while he had tried immigration with Mauritanians. His family and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights are calling on Guinea to intervene so that he can regain his freedom.
Misfortune for a Moroccan, a candidate for immigration, who found himself exhausted in Ceuta while trying to reach Spain by swimming. He was accompanied by a boy who, he, was able to reach the shore before alerting the maritime security agents. For the moment, the searches have yielded nothing.
The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, promises to dissolve Generation Identity "if the elements are gathered". He has put the dissolution of the movement under study because of the anti-migrant operations recently organized in the Alps and the Pyrenees.
Mohamed El Khalifi, a Moroccan businessman living in the Canary Islands for more than 20 years, is saddened by the incidents that have occurred in recent days in the tourist areas of the island, many of which are perpetrated by Moroccans.
Wanted by the French authorities for common law offenses and illegal residence, Said Haddadi, a 25-year-old Moroccan, was extradited on Monday by the Catalan police. Seeking refuge in Spain, the individual had threatened to exterminate all the Mossos d’Esquadra with a Kalashnikov.
Seven former prisoners and activists of the Hirak movement, who had participated in the social protests in the Rif region in 2017, have emigrated to Spain. They reached the coasts of Granada in southern Spain on board two boats.