Five asylum seekers holding Moroccan passports escaped during the night of Tuesday from one of the waiting rooms at Madrid-Barajas airport through a hole in the ceiling. One of them was arrested. The other four, reported missing, are actively being sought by the police.
Spain has deployed the maritime action ship Tornado in the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea, near Moroccan waters, to carry out a surveillance and deterrence mission.
The rush of Moroccans to the Costa del Sol during the summer benefited the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet shopping center in Malaga, which recorded a 6% increase in visitors and an 11% increase in sales at the end of the summer season compared to the previous year.
A Civil Guard was sentenced to seven months in prison for stealing money from a Moroccan during a check at the Beni-Enzar border.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior has expelled to Morocco Said Ben Iazza, one of the three jihadists convicted for the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17, 2017.
FedEx, the American multinational transportation and logistics company, plans to lay off 96 employees in Spain, mainly in the areas of customer service, sales and new technologies (IT), and to relocate to Morocco and Turkey where labor is cheaper.
While he had taken refuge in Tangier, Morocco for seven months, Karim El Baqqali, suspected of the death of two civil guards in the port of Barbate (Cadiz) last February, surrendered to the Spanish authorities last week.
The Spanish Society for Studies on Fixed Communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has recently launched a call for tenders for the rental with option to purchase of four seismometers in order to study the seabed of the strait as part of the project to build a tunnel connecting Spain and Morocco.
The Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT), has authorized the installation of a series of information panels aimed at warning road users, particularly Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), of potential dangers. The objective is to improve road safety and promote more responsible driving.
The Spanish police arrested at the beginning of the week a man of Spanish origin, director of a firm specializing in the processing of foreigners’ documentation in the city of Melilla, for having defrauded a Moroccan woman to whom he had promised to issue a residence permit in Spain.
A Moroccan residing in Melilla is contesting the seizure of 11.2 liters of olive oil during his crossing at the Beni-Enzar border. He believes he was the victim of an abuse of power by the authorities.
Last year, Morocco acquired from the Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) the spy satellite Ofek 13. This acquisition seems to be causing concerns in Spain.