Five Moroccan women remain hospitalized in Sebta after giving birth, although some could already leave the facility. However, lacking suitable accommodation, their discharge would leave them on the streets with their newborns.
Moroccan convicts are allegedly deliberately concealing their passports to block their return to Morocco. The practice is described by several Spanish public prosecutors’ offices, which accuse Moroccan consulates of systematically requiring the original document before agreeing to readmission.
Morocco says it is prepared to take back the minors who arrived irregularly in Sebta and criticizes Spain for not returning them. Madrid responds that around 600 older procedures remain blocked due to a lack of response from the Moroccan authorities.
Two Moroccan children, born in 2009 and 2011, remain separated from their mother, who lives in the Netherlands. Out of school for over a year and without stable parental care in Morocco, according to their stepfather, they have just seen their appeal rejected by the Dutch courts.
A Moroccan man who claimed to be 17 and had been taken into care as a minor in Spain has now been formally charged by a Madrid judge. Medical examinations revealed that he was in fact well over 18. He is suspected of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
Siraj is only three years old. After reaching Ceuta by swimming with his parents and brother, this young Moroccan has lived for 26 days under a tent, without toilets, amid the abandoned warehouses of the El Tarajal industrial zone.
Mohamed El Harrak knows firsthand the journey of minors attempting to reach Spain. At just 9 years old, he himself crossed the border hidden under a truck. Today, a social worker, he has returned to Sebta to help young migrants left on the streets.
Arrived by patera in Lanzarote in 2023, Idir Tiguit, an 18-year-old Moroccan, was honored in Madrid by Queen Letizia. His exemplary journey illustrates the success of the " Talento Joven " professional integration program.
Teenagers from affluent families in Morocco and Algeria are being abandoned in Spain to take advantage of the social welfare system . This phenomenon, dubbed the "Menas-Erasmus", is mobilizing law enforcement in the face of massive fraud.
A Moroccan university professor was arrested in Spain. He had deliberately abandoned his two minor children so that the state could take custody of them, hoping to thus offer them better future opportunities on the other side of the Mediterranean.
France’s highest court has ruled: a notarized kafala deed, once validated by a foreign judge—in this case, in Morocco—constitutes a court decision. The ruling clarifies the conditions for obtaining French citizenship for children taken into care.
Some 16,000 Moroccan minors who have reached the age of majority have obtained their residence and work permits in Spain. This is the result of the reform on the regulation of foreigners implemented over the past year.