More than 16,000 vehicles embarked last weekend in Algeciras and Tarifa to Morocco as part of the Marhaba Operation, causing massive traffic jams and a lot of discontent.
Spain is concerned about Morocco’s rapid rearmament. In recent years, the kingdom has acquired long-range missiles and defense systems from the United States and Israel, its privileged partners, capable of reaching Spanish cities such as Seville, Cadiz and Malaga.
The flow of Moroccans from Europe who chose to pass through Ceuta to return to Morocco as part of the Marhaba Operation has decreased by 10% this year compared to 2022.
The Spanish police arrested on Monday in Madrid a Moroccan accused of being the "representative in Europe" of the Mexican drug trafficking network Los Zetas.
The distress call of a young Moroccan with cancer whose asylum application was recently rejected in Seville has been heard. He is now receiving care.
After several months of investigation, the Civil Guard has finally solved the murder of a missing Moroccan, whose lifeless body was found in Novelda (Alicante) last December. The victim was killed while trying to steal drugs from a rival gang.
The lifeless body of a young man of Moroccan origin, reported missing on Friday in La Alberca (Murcia), while swimming in the lake of the La Cierva dam in Mula, was found on Saturday.
The good coordination between Morocco and Spain in the organization of Operation Marhaba would be proof of the excellent quality of the relations between the two countries.
A Moroccan set fire to the apartment where his ex-wife and their three children, as well as four nephews, live in Lorca (Murcia). The fire engulfed the neighboring apartment where a couple and their four children live. They were all rescued in extremis by the firefighters and are safe and sound.
The strengthening of cooperation between Morocco and Israel in the military field is worrying Spain, especially since the acquisition by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces of the Israeli PULS rocket launcher, with a range of 300 kilometers.
The "Strait Crossing" operation (OPE), overseen by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, is in full swing. Between June 15 and July 26, more than one million people, exactly 1,020,606 people, crossed from Spain to Morocco, a figure up 6.1% from the previous year. And there could be a lot of people this weekend.
A 28-year-old British citizen was arrested by the Guardia Civil, following an attempted murder on a Moroccan in Santa Ponsa (Balearics).