The maritime service of the Civil Guard has stepped up the control of Moroccan fishing boats, in the face of the use of nets by Moroccan fishermen, causing significant damage to marine wildlife. As evidenced by the massacre of dolphins recorded in the waters of Ceuta in recent days.
In Spain, several clandestine workshops for the manufacture of weapons exported to Ceuta and Melilla and delivered to Moroccan drug traffickers have been dismantled. The Spanish police have arrested several workers.
The Caballas coalition of Ceuta intends to submit to the local Assembly a plan to reconvert the Tarajal industrialists who have ceased their activities since the closure of the borders with Morocco.
The Center for the Study and Conservation of Marine Animals (CECAM) announced on Sunday the discovery of a dead dolphin and a dead globicephalus in the usual fishing area of Moroccans in the waters near Ceuta.
A body in an advanced state of decomposition was found on the beach of Ceuta. It was buried on Saturday in the Sidi Embarek cemetery. No identification documents were found on it.
Morocco has closed its land borders with Ceuta and Melilla since March 2020 due to the health crisis, which did not allow the holding of the Marhaba Operation last year. There is also great uncertainty about the organization of this edition.
The association of residents of Ceuta, in a letter addressed to the King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, is asking for the reopening of the Tarajal border in order to allow the inhabitants of Ceuta and Tetouan "to refresh their ties and move freely during this month of Ramadan fasting".
While no official decision has been communicated by the Moroccan government, concern is growing among the authorities of Ceuta and Melilla, who fear the exclusion of the two Spanish enclaves from the Marhaba 2021 operation. To anticipate this, the local authorities are already conducting administrative and diplomatic lobbying.
Civil Guard maritime service agents in Ceuta rescued two young Moroccans, residents of M’diq and Fnideq, who were attempting to reach the city of Ceuta.
Morocco has still not provided official information on the organization of the Marhaba Operation 2021. This lack of communication is worrying on the Ceuta side.
The Moroccan security forces and the Spanish Civil Guard arrested early Tuesday a group of about sixty young migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who tried to reach Spain via Ceuta.
As part of the organization of the Marhaba Operation this year, Morocco does not intend to transit through Ceuta and Melilla the thousands of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) , especially from Europe, who wish to spend the summer vacation in the kingdom.