Teenagers from affluent families in Morocco and Algeria are being abandoned in Spain to take advantage of the social welfare system . This phenomenon, dubbed the "Menas-Erasmus", is mobilizing law enforcement in the face of massive fraud.
A young man of Moroccan origin was found dead on Saturday in L’Ametlla de Mar in Tarragona. The Mossos d’Esquadra have opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the death.
The Moroccan authorities have expelled Núria Bota, a Spaniard from Tarragona, who had gone to Dakhla in the Moroccan Sahara to spend a few days there.
The number of Moroccans who have immigrated to the province of Tarragona in Spain has increased considerably in recent years, reaching more than 42,000 today.
The first baby of 2023 in Tarragona is Moroccan and is named Yasmine. 40% of babies in this Spanish province have foreign-born parents.
The police arrested on Tuesday Mohamed Saïd Badaoui, head of the Islamic community of Reus (Tarragona), accused of being a threat to national security. The Moroccan activist, threatened with expulsion, was placed in custody at the La Verneda police station in Barcelona.
At the initiative of the International Alliance without Borders for Rights and Freedoms, Moroccans residing in the province of Tarragona (northern Spain) received food aid during this Ramadan month, which is particular due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Catalan police (Mossos d’Esquadra) arrested, on January 25, nine people of Moroccan nationality, in several municipalities in the province of Tarragona. These individuals, aged between 18 and 45, are accused of belonging to an organization dedicated to drug trafficking such as cocaine, hashish and marijuana.
The Spanish Supreme Court has just confirmed the sentence of two years and one month in prison against a man accused of hitting a Moroccan and insulting him "Arab shit".