Criminal networks are using the logistics serving the hashish traffic from Morocco to the Netherlands via Spain for cocaine trafficking. This is revealed by the 2023 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Yassir Rais is the CEO of Syra Coffee, a specialty coffee company he founded in 2015 in a small square in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona. Today, the company, headquartered in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), has more than 30 establishments in Barcelona, Madrid, Seville and Valencia.
The President of Melilla, Eduardo de Castro, believes that Morocco continues to use hybrid strategies and to suffocate the autonomous city, despite the change in Spain’s position on the Sahara which has led to the normalization of relations between the two countries.
The National Police arrested in Seville the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Mohamed, the Moroccan homeless man stabbed to death on May 4 . The victim earned his living by helping vehicles park in a city parking lot.
Mohamed, a 17-year-old Moroccan, was seriously injured during violent clashes between youth gangs that occurred a week ago in Magaluf (Balearic Islands). He is still receiving care in the hospital where he was admitted in critical condition.
Morocco has just acquired the sophisticated HIMARS missile system with a range of 300 kilometers from the United States. An acquisition that does not worry Spain, which is convinced that Morocco’s rearmament is aimed at Algeria and the Sahel.
The preparations for the Operation Crossing the Strait (OPE) have been launched by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, which expects a significant flow of passengers and vehicles between June 15 and September 15. The ports of Algeciras and Tarifa will play a central role in this operation.
The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras is preparing the public auction of the ship Boraq, moored at the Isla Verde quay since 2016, with practically no activity since then.
The Guardia Civil has expelled one of its agents for disseminating xenophobic ’fake news’ on social networks targeting Moroccans. This is the first conviction of its kind in Spain.
Vox proposes to strengthen the military presence in Melilla by creating a training center for new recruits, in order to deter Morocco, which continues to express claims on Ceuta and Melilla.
The Superior Court of Justice of Navarre has ordered the expulsion for a period of ten years of a 44-year-old Moroccan, sentenced to 5 years in prison by the provincial court for having locked up his wife in an abandoned sawmill in Burlada (Navarre).
A man of Moroccan origin was arrested for drug trafficking, specifically hashish, during a joint operation between the Civil Guard and the Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency carried out in the port of Santander, in northern Spain.