With the closure of international borders, access to the European area via Turkey has become an impossible mission for Moroccan immigration candidates. While some manage to find their way back, the majority are in Turkish prisons.
37 would-be illegal immigrants arrested in Tarfaya were declared positive for covid-19, between Saturday June 20 at 5 p.m. and Sunday June 21 at 10 a.m., in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region.
14 migrants from Laâyoune have tested positive for coronavirus in the Canary Islands. They were rescued off the coast of Fuerteventura and taken care of by the local authorities.
Two Moroccans were arrested on Tuesday, as part of the investigation opened after the discovery, in October in England, of the bodies of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who died in a refrigerated truck, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
A young Sub-Saharan has managed to reach Spanish territorial waters, by crossing the [Strait of Gibraltar] on board an inflatable boat. He was rescued by the Spanish coast guard.
The elements of the national security of M’diq arrested, on Sunday, 6 individuals, including a Spanish national of Moroccan origin and 5 Algerians, for violation of the state of emergency, organization of illegal immigration, illegal stay, and refusal to comply.
The municipal councilor of Taoujtat, in the Meknès region, has just tasted the anguish experienced by illegal migrants, by taking a boat to cross over to Morocco. He was arrested and returned to the hotel where he is staying.
The 29-year-old undocumented Egyptian, arrested on the Île Saint-Denis and victim of police brutality by the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) of the Asnières police station on April 26, filed a complaint against X this Saturday, May 9 for intentional violence.
The Spanish police have announced that they have thwarted the escape of 14 Moroccan citizens from the city of Ceuta to the Moroccan coast, since the start of the coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic and the implementation of the state of health emergency in Spain on March 13.
An investigation has been opened after clashes between police and sub-Saharan migrants, in a shelter, on Friday, May 1, 2020 in Laâyoune. These migrants tried to flee the center.
The emergency services of the Canary Islands archipelago announced the birth of a baby during the rescue operation of 35 migrants located in the Atlantic Ocean off the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. This is the second largest island of the Canaries, located about a hundred kilometers off the coast of Morocco .
Faced with the inability of seasonal workers from Eastern European countries to reach the fields in Spain, Italy and France, due to the closure of borders in Europe, Spain has preferred to turn to Moroccan irregular immigrants. According to the association of Spanish farmers, this is a workforce that could help save the agricultural season in danger due to the secondary damage of the coronavirus pandemic.