The hashish trafficking networks from Morocco to Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar now transport drugs not only by sea, but also by air using light aircraft or helicopters.
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.
The National Police of Cadiz is searching for the criminals who kidnapped and tortured a 33-year-old Moroccan for hours in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cadiz).
Some restaurants and hotels in Spain are using Moroccan labor on site. These are mainly Moroccan minors who have become of age and need a job to stay in the peninsula.
A three-and-a-half-year-old child from Ceuta was urgently transferred to the hospital in M’diq on Saturday after a fall from a third floor. The minor was later evacuated to Ceuta and then to Cadiz.
About a dozen Moroccan boats are said to be engaged in illegal fishing activities in the waters near Motril. Their presence is denounced by a Spanish fishermen’s organization that calls on the authorities to take action.
The new Sevilla FC coach, José Luis Mendilibar, will have to choose between Moroccan Yassine Bounou and Serb Dmitrovic to remain in goal for the match against Cadiz scheduled for Saturday. According to the local press, the Serb is the favorite... for several reasons.
The spokesman for Vox in the Andalusian parliament, Manuel Gavira, expressed his disagreement on Wednesday with the proposal by the president of the Cádiz Hotel Association (Horeca), Antonio de María, to recruit Moroccan seasonal workers to make up for the labor shortage in the sector in Cádiz.
To address the labor shortage in the hotel industry and cope with the high demand during the next summer season, the president of the Cádiz hoteliers’ association is asking the government to organize the recruitment of Moroccan seasonal workers as it does for the berry harvest.
Prosecuted for drug trafficking, 15 of the 16 members of the "Los Castaña" network, considered the largest in the strait, were acquitted by the provincial court of Cadiz. Only the group’s leader, Francisco "Isco" Tejón, was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for a crime against public health.
A young Moroccan saved a woman of Colombian origin, assaulted by her partner on a public street, in a street in Cadiz, Spain.
The Civil Guard dismantled on Tuesday in the Campo de Gibraltar a hashish trafficking network from Morocco. In total, 20 people were arrested.