Four Moroccans who had hidden for more than three days inside a truck were arrested on Thursday by the police services in Ceuta , before being deported to Morocco in accordance with immigration law.
At least twenty arrests were made yesterday by the police in Ceuta following new clashes between Moroccan and Algerian nationals. The origin was a simple "territorial control".
Moroccan smugglers in Ceuta are not all on an equal footing. While some barely manage to earn around fifteen euros, or even 9 euros, others sometimes reach 500 euros per trip, or more than 5,600 dirhams, double the average Moroccan salary.
A massive brawl took place on February 27 between Moroccan and Algerian immigrants. A man was seriously injured in the head.
The increasingly important share of Moroccans in the two Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla is a major concern for political leaders, some of whom have just submitted a bill to tighten the conditions for obtaining nationality.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior announced on Saturday work to increase the height of the double fences at the Ceuta border with Morocco .
A bill that will soon be submitted by the president of the government of the city of Ceuta, provides for including in the Child Protection Act a provision to expel all unaccompanied foreign minors from the two autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
A 15-year-old Moroccan minor, who wanted to illegally immigrate to Europe, died in the port of Ceuta on Thursday, February 14. The investigation is ongoing to determine the exact circumstances of the tragedy.
In addition to its human cost, with the death of several carriers, mainly women, the smuggling of goods with the two cities of Melilla and Ceuta has a financial and economic cost that is increasingly difficult for the Moroccan authorities to bear.
The radical solution is being considered by the Moroccan authorities who wish, within a period of 5 to 10 years, to put an end to smuggling with the cities of Sebta and Melilla, in northern Morocco.
Moroccan security services arrested a Moroccan on Monday in Bab Sebta who was trying to smuggle more than 14 kg of cannabis in a... motorcycle.
Some 19 kilos of drugs were seized on Friday evening by customs services at Bab Sebta, in the north of the country, on board a vehicle driven by a Moroccan residing abroad.