Melilla Border Crisis: Understaffed ’Marhaba Operation’ Sparks Criticism

"This is a public complaint that we are making due to the critical situation experienced by the police stationed at the Beni-Ensar border due to a Marhaba Operation that was approved quickly and hastily, without any prior organization," said Miguel Marín to the press, specifying that only "two or three police officers" have been assigned to document control while "six counters are operational" at the border.

The PP leader in Melilla explains that there is therefore barely half the necessary staff to carry out these border controls, stressing that this personnel is "clearly insufficient and everyone knows it". Marín deplored the difficult working conditions of these police officers who are subjected to "unprecedented stress".

For all these reasons, the PP is asking the authorities to "immediately send more agents to the Melilla-Morocco border" to facilitate the control work and in turn streamline the transit of Moroccan expatriates in this return phase of the Operation which ends on September 15.