While Morocco and Spain are at loggerheads over the planned end of the smuggling trade in Sebta and Melilla, Moroccan smugglers, in particular the "mule women" as well as the Spaniards, are suffering.
The Guardia Civil services have succeeded in dismantling an international prostitution network, involving Russian and Ukrainian nationals, in the Spanish enclave of Melilla .
The local branch of the Popular Party (PP) in Melilla is sharpening its weapons to counter the new government on certain issues, including those related to Morocco. The party is already making its colors known by multiplying its statements and declarations against the kingdom.
Around forty illegal immigrants were rescued off the coast of the province of Al-Hoceima by the Royal Moroccan Navy. They had crammed onto an inflatable boat that capsized at sea.
The Moroccan authorities have apprehended a Spanish soldier for his alleged link to an illegal immigration network. It was by following the trail of a complaint filed against him that his arrest was possible.
The Guardia Civil has managed to thwart the attempt to traffic a 10-year-old Palestinian child, hidden under bags of fruits and vegetables in a shopping cart. Transiting through the Beni Nsar crossing, the child was to join the Spanish enclave Melilla .
By transiting through the Spanish enclaves, Sebta and Melilla, the new Algerian cocaine cartels are competing with the main supplier of the Moroccan market, the so-called "la Scie", and are causing a stir among Moroccan security services who are unaware of their modus operandi.
26 kilos of 18 carat gold were seized by the Guardia Civil elements and the tax services inside a vehicle belonging to a Moroccan national coming from Almeria, and transiting through the port of Melilla .
The video, filmed and broadcast by the Guardia Civil, shows the harsh reality of human trafficking. Two 19-year-old Guineans were found hidden near the engine of a vehicle, inside the seats.
Morocco has just acquired 3 units of very high-performance radar, capable of sweeping the airspaces of southern Spain and northwestern Algeria.
A 53-year-old individual, pursued for voluntary homicide, was arrested on Thursday, December 5th in the evening by the elements of the Spanish judicial police in the peripheral neighborhood of Cañada de Hidum in Melilla .
Faced with the resurgence of terrorist cells choosing mosques as meeting places, Abdelhak Khiame, director of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ, the central anti-terrorist body), stressed the "need to institutionalize places of worship".