Little Wadie, aged two and a half, drowned on Saturday in Los Narejos, on the coast of the Murcia region. His family, residing in Paris and on vacation in the region, is desperately trying to repatriate his body to Morocco or France to bury him with dignity.
Health workers in the emergency department of Alhama de Murcia were victims of aggression and threats from a Moroccan whose wife was about to give birth. They had gone to the couple’s home to transfer the latter, who had lost her waters, to the hospital. The removal of the pregnant woman’s hijab to administer emergency care sparked her husband’s anger.
The officials of the Cabezo de Torres mosque in Murcia discovered xenophobic graffiti on the walls and a pig’s head placed at the entrance of the place of worship early this Wednesday morning.
Several cases of racist and xenophobic attacks and murders have been recorded in the Murcia region in recent months. The most striking is that of Younes Bilal, the young Moroccan killed on June 13 in Mazarrón by a former Spanish soldier.
Hundreds of people responded on Sunday to the call to demonstrate launched by the Stop Racism platform to denounce racist and xenophobic acts and crimes in the Murcia region.
Racist attacks against Moroccans continue in Murcia. Unlike the political authorities who do not seem to grasp the situation, despite the case of Younes Bilal, victim of a racist crime on June 13 in Mazarron, migrant associations are multiplying demonstrations. After those on Friday in Murcia, others are planned for tomorrow Sunday in Cartagena.
The Stop Racism platform in the Murcia region will organize protest movements this weekend against the exacerbation of racist and xenophobic crimes and acts in Spain. The demonstrations will take place in Murcia and Cartagena.
Younes Bilal, the young Moroccan victim of a racist crime in Mazarrón (Murcia), was buried on Sunday in Morocco.
In Murcia, a 39-year-old Moroccan received three bullets in the chest on Sunday, June 13 and succumbed to his injuries the next day. The alleged murderer was arrested and then taken into custody.
The police in Murcia have arrested a 39-year-old Moroccan man, accused of sexually assaulting and exploiting a Moroccan woman for about two and a half years.
Long demanded by Moroccans residing in the Murcia region, the opening of the Moroccan consulate was officially announced this week.