Morocco has decided to repatriate Moroccan seasonal workers stranded for more than a month in southern Spain, on June 15, 2021. This date will mark the resumption of flights to and from the kingdom.
"Two or three repatriation orders" for unaccompanied Moroccan minors are signed each day, said Abderrahim Mohamed Hammú, the deputy advisor to the minor in the autonomous city of Melilla , urging Morocco to refer to its embassy in Spain to proceed with their repatriation.
Carmen Calvo, first vice-president of the Spanish government, demands guarantees and conditions before any repatriation of Moroccan minors who arrived en masse in Ceuta two weeks ago.
Faced with the silence of the Moroccan government, the Association of Small Producers (UPA) of Andalusia plans to demonstrate on June 11 in front of the Moroccan consulate to demand the return of the 12,621 seasonal workers.
Many Moroccans who arrived in Ceuta en masse two weeks ago, causing an unprecedented migration crisis, do not want to return to Morocco. On Monday, a group of these young people, as well as other Moroccans stranded in Spain since the start of the health crisis, gathered at the immigration office to apply for asylum.
Aboubacar Barry, 19, is a young Sierra Leonean who was repatriated "by mistake" this week to Morocco, as part of the return of Moroccans who entered Ceuta in large numbers at the beginning of the week. He had been living in Casablanca for about four years before deciding on Sunday, May 2, to cross Ceuta to reach Spain.
Around thirty children under the age of 12 and their mothers living in the camps in Syria will have to be repatriated to Belgium, according to a decision taken in early March by the Belgian government.
Subject to obtaining the agreement of the Moroccan authorities, the French embassy in Rabat announced on its Facebook page that a ferry to repatriate French citizens stranded in Morocco to France will take place on May 22, 2021. The company La Méridionale is in charge.
The Moroccan seasonal workers stranded in Huelva, southern Spain, will finally be able to return home in the coming days. Several associations are actively preparing this repatriation with the mandatory presentation of a negative Covid-19 PCR test.
The national company Tunisair announced on Saturday that it has scheduled a new repatriation flight for Tunisians stranded in Morocco. The departure is scheduled for Sunday, May 9, 2021, at 11:30 p.m., at Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca at terminal 2.
The European Commission presented on Tuesday a strategy aimed at increasing "voluntary returns" to the countries of origin of migrants residing illegally in EU countries. Morocco is affected by this operation as on Tuesday several dozen Moroccans arrived in Ceuta.
The Spanish National Police launched on Tuesday an operation to repatriate Moroccan migrants who recently tried to reach Ceuta en masse by swimming. These returns, which are not expulsions, are carried out by mutual agreement between the Spanish and Moroccan governments. Already about thirty Moroccans have been repatriated.