The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, has committed to providing more resources to Ceuta in order to facilitate the return of minors to Morocco. In the meantime, the operation has been suspended by the Ceuta justice system, which ruled that it was carried out in violation of the current regulations.
The Ministry of the Interior is setting up a data center for the management of births and deaths of Moroccans and foreigners residing in Morocco. This is part of the implementation of the new law on civil status adopted by parliament a few weeks ago, with new mechanisms for managing civil status.
Hiba Abouk, the wife of Moroccan international Achraf Hakimi would be pregnant again. Photos tend to confirm this second pregnancy.
Many minors have escaped from reception centers to avoid being repatriated to Morocco. They prefer to live on the streets of Ceuta rather than return to Morocco where, they say, there is no future.
Many Moroccan minors continue to wander the streets of Ceuta. Despite the difficult living conditions, they are not interested in returning to Morocco and are determined to stay in Spain or to come back by any means if they were to be repatriated.
The return to Morocco of the minors who arrived in Ceuta in May has increased the tension within the Spanish government. The Podemos party accuses the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, of having engaged in these illegal collective returns of minors without involving his counterpart in charge of Social Rights.
Since the launch on Friday of the operation to repatriate minors, the streets of Ceuta are increasingly filled with these boys who are escaping from the shelters, preferring to live as homeless people rather than return to Morocco.
The young Morad, 16 years old, was part of the group of 15 minors from the Santa Amelia sports center repatriated on Sunday to Morocco. But he remains determined to return to Spain as soon as possible to build a better future for himself.
The repatriation operation of Moroccan minors launched last Friday by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior has had an unexpected effect. The minors, fearing to return to Morocco, are escaping from the reception centers to find themselves wandering the streets of Ceuta.
The Ceuta court did not react favorably to the request to suspend the repatriation of seven Moroccan migrant minors. The judge did not have time to rule on the case because the return of the minors was carried out in advance.
The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, giving explanations on the return of minors to Morocco, indicated that it is not an expulsion and that the operation is carried out in compliance with the regulations in force.
The Spanish Episcopal Conference calls on the government to "guarantee above all the life and safety of minors", in accordance with national laws and international conventions, which require "their consent" before any possible repatriation.