The influx is not there in Ceuta as part of the return phase of Operation Marhaba. Few Moroccans from Europe have chosen to pass through the autonomous city to return to their country of residence after spending their summer vacation in Morocco.
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.
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has reaffirmed that Ceuta and Melilla are part of Spain and the EU. This, in response to Morocco which had described the two cities as "Moroccan".
Morocco has never ceased to claim Ceuta and Melilla. Despite the resumption of relations with Spain, the kingdom has maintained its "hybrid strategy" towards the two autonomous cities.
A former agent of the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI), Fernando San Agustín, reveals in a recent book the "Morocco 2030" plan aimed at annexing Ceuta and Melilla.
The Maritime Captaincy of Ceuta has decided to restrict the use of jet-skis in its jurisdiction. From now on, these vehicles will no longer be able to travel more than two miles from the coast of the autonomous city or leave Spanish waters. This, in order to fight against the use of these vehicles for the trafficking of migrants and drugs from Morocco.
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 Defense Ministry’s Española de Defensa magazine, in its July-August 2023 issue, publishes an article on the air surveillance squadron (EVA 11) located in Cadiz in southern Spain, near northern Morocco.
The ports of Algeciras and Tarifa recorded the passage of 29,000 Moroccans from Europe and 6,700 vehicles bound for Ceuta on Saturday, as part of the Marhaba 2023 Operation. The authorities warn travelers without tickets.
Agents from the General Command of Melilla (army) have been carrying out a mission of control, surveillance and "deterrence" near the border with Morocco for a few days.
The Spanish police have just assigned 18 agents from the elite Special Reserve and Security Group (GRS) unit to the command of the Civil Guard of Ceuta to effectively combat drug and migrant trafficking by jet skis from Morocco.
A Moroccan police chief opposed the transfer to Morocco of the body of a Moroccan who died in Ceuta for burial in M’diq. The man was finally buried in the Sidi Embarek cemetery, without the presence of all his relatives living in Morocco.