Spain currently has about one million Moroccans residing on its soil, of whom 250,000 are in an illegal situation, according to figures just released by the National Institute of Statistics for the year 2018.
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.
A Moroccan family consisting of the two parents, two children and a 3-month-old baby was found on a makeshift boat along with 24 other illegal migrants as they attempted the crossing to the Canary Islands.
The emergency department of the regional hospital in the city of Oujda had to urgently treat a group of sub-Saharan migrants whose health has seriously deteriorated due to hunger and cold. Residents of Tiouli, near Jerada, are said to have found three in extreme difficulty just steps from the Moroccan-Algerian border.
Last Tuesday, at the Beni-Ensar border post, on the Melilla border, the Guardia Civil discovered a 20-year-old man from Conakry, Guinea, hidden in a hidden compartment under the dashboard of a car. The vehicle belongs to a Moroccan couple from Nador.
The authorities have just arrested four illegal immigration candidates near Nador for the murder of a Moroccan while they were trying to return to Algeria in his car. The reason: the Moroccan, a member of a clandestine smuggling network, could not honor his promise to transport them to Europe quickly enough.
His dream was to reach Europe even at the risk of his life. Soufiane, a young Moroccan, was crushed to death by a truck as he tried to hide in it.
A Moroccan student at the French university of Lille 2 was detained on Sunday in a closed center in Caricole de Steenokkerzeel (Flemish region) before being expelled to Morocco .
A makeshift boat carrying about twenty migrants, including a majority of minors, was intercepted on Thursday by the Spanish authorities in Ceuta.
His body was finally buried in his hometown of Salé. This is Ayoub Mabrouk, a young Moroccan with a promising future who had taken the risk of illegally reaching Spain.
52,000 expulsions. This is the number of illegal migrants that the far-right party Vox demands to be expelled in order to accept a political alliance in Andalusia.
To avoid the assaults of illegal migrants, the Moroccan authorities have decided to significantly strengthen surveillance.