More than 13,000 MREs and 3,000 vehicles joined Morocco from Ceuta last weekend, while 22,365 MREs and 5,144 vehicles made the traffic in the opposite direction, as part of the return phase of Operation Marhaba.
The agents of the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard intercepted on Tuesday off the coast of Ceuta a "Phantom" type boat, registered in Morocco, with 17 bales of hashish weighing 560 kilos. The two occupants, known by the nicknames "Kubala" and "Paquirri", were arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.
Long queues were recorded on Saturday on the Moroccan side of the Tarajal border. Moroccans from Europe, at the end of their holidays in the kingdom, are waiting to cross the border to return to their countries of residence as part of the return phase of the Marhaba Operation.
The Civil Guard intercepted on Tuesday in Punta Almina (Ceuta) a boat registered in Morocco that was transporting 17 bales of hashish weighing 600 kilos. The two crew members, Spaniards, were arrested.
The national police of Ceuta arrested on Tuesday a man who had kidnapped and held five Moroccan migrants and a woman of the same nationality hostage in a house in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the autonomous city. He was remanded in custody.
The maritime service agents of Ceuta rescued at sea a 25-year-old Moroccan migrant who crossed the strait with a float from Morocco. He showed signs of hypothermia.
King Mohammed VI has spent his 23 years of reign modernizing the Mediterranean coast with the aim of achieving co-sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, according to a Spanish newspaper.
Actively sought by the French police and Interpol, a French national of Algerian origin was arrested on Friday by the Moroccan police in Ceuta.
On Monday, a Spanish national of Moroccan origin was arrested, suspected of being involved in drug trafficking, by the control services at Bab Sebta , in northern Morocco.
"About 50,000 Moroccan expatriates and 14,000 vehicles" crossed the Tarajal border in both directions between Friday and Sunday, with waiting times of up to four hours maximum, according to the government delegation in Sebta.
Ceuta has decreed since Saturday noon the interchangeability of boat tickets as part of the Marhaba Operation, which is at a critical point this weekend with the end of the outward phase and the beginning of the return phase.
574,800 people have crossed the Tarajal border from or to Morocco since its reopening on May 17, after more than two years of closure due to the health crisis related to Covid-19 and the diplomatic crisis between Morocco and Spain.