The Spanish government is expelling hundreds of immigrants from the Canary Islands to Morocco. Almost every day for the past three weeks, at least 20 passengers have been repatriated to Morocco .
Two years in prison with no possibility of parole, this is the sentence imposed on a 33-year-old Moroccan by the Dordogne court. On New Year’s Eve and Christmas morning, he had been arrested for violence against his ex-partner.
At least 2,200 migrants died in 2020 trying to reach Spain and 85% of the deaths occurred in 45 shipwrecks off the Canary Islands.
An impressive crowd mobilized last Monday in front of the government headquarters in Girona, northern Spain, to denounce the death of a young Moroccan who was part of the program for unaccompanied migrant minors. The protesters hold the General Directorate for Childhood (DGAIA) responsible for his death.
Subject of several arrest warrants for human trafficking, illegal immigration and various criminal offenses, a repeat offender managed, on Tuesday, to free himself from his handcuffs and get out of the police van that was transferring him to the police station in Salé .
693 foreigners are "on the way" to obtaining French nationality and 74 have already obtained it out of a total of 2,890 applications registered by the prefectures.
A young woman was sentenced on Thursday, December 17, to one year in prison with probation, with a permanent ban on holding public office, in a case of fake documents. The civil servant’s friend and her boyfriend were sentenced to one year in prison with probation for aiding and abetting the irregular stay of a foreigner in an organized gang.
A man tried to set himself on fire in Dakhla . He would have been scammed by smugglers who promised him the crossing of the Atlantic.
Hamza, a young Moroccan who went in search of the Eldorado, saw his dream darken in the Canary Islands. After several attempts to reach Valencia and now with limited means, he had to negotiate his repatriation with the police at the airport, preferring to live modestly in Morocco rather than in precariousness in the Iberian neighbor.
The agreement recently signed between France and Morocco to simplify the return of unaccompanied Moroccan minors to their country of origin is far from satisfying everyone. Associations and lawyers denounce the lack of clarity of a text they consider not in line with "the best interests of children".
Morocco refuses to take back third-country nationals who reach Europe from its territory. This request from the European Union has therefore been rejected.
The Spanish authorities have started the deportation of hundreds of illegal Moroccan immigrants, following negotiations with Morocco. This is happening at a time when the two countries are still in advanced talks, awaiting the conclusion of the Moroccan-Spanish summit, initially scheduled for December 17, but postponed to February 2021.