The Civil Guard and the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie have dismantled a criminal organization specialized in the trafficking of hashish from Morocco to Spain via helicopters. In total, nine people were arrested and two helicopters as well as 795 kilos of hashish were seized.
Elements of the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit (Udyco) of Ceuta have arrested this Thursday an individual, suspected to be close to the Mocro maffia, accused of several crimes including a kidnapping in Catalonia.
The Spanish Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced on Monday that an investigation has been opened to shed light on the death of the young Moroccan asylum seeker who had started a hunger strike in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) to protest the lack of an appointment.
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in the European Union published a new alert on Friday, March 15, regarding the presence of hepatitis A in strawberries from Morocco. This shipment has been destroyed.
Patrol boats of the Royal Moroccan Navy would collaborate with drug traffickers in the Strait of Gibraltar to smuggle hashish into Spain.
Morocco would be negotiating with Spain to reactivate the Schengen visa exemption agreement for Moroccans residing in the northern cities of the kingdom in order to allow them to enter Ceuta with only their passports.
The Guardia Civil has arrested 14 people in Murcia, Almeria and Jaen, presumed members of a network, accused of having defrauded families of Moroccan and Algerian migrants who died at sea, promising them the repatriation of the bodies of the latter. Civil servants are being investigated as part of this case.
Calls for boycotts of Moroccan products continue in Spain. This time, it is the Moroccan olive oil of the Carbonell brand that has been attacked on social networks.
President Pedro Sanchez would have announced on the sidelines of his last visit to Rabat the adoption of a measure aimed at recognizing, without prior examination, Moroccan C and D driving licenses in Spain. This is not the case, clarified the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) this week.
The administrative chamber of the National Court has just rejected the appeal filed by a young Moroccan, an asylum seeker, against the decision of the Ministry of the Interior refusing him the right to asylum and subsidiary protection.
The project of a tunnel between Morocco and Spain under the Strait of Gibraltar could start in the coming months. The ongoing studies reveal that the project will be carried out and operated in two phases.
The Civil Guard has arrested 14 people, members of a network of forgers who make the families of missing migrants at sea believe that they are able to provide them with all the necessary documents for the repatriation of the latter.