Moroccan Asylum Seekers Protest Delays in Ceuta Despite Valid Documents

23 October 2021 – byPrince@Bladi · 1 min read

Moroccan migrants in Ceuta can no longer stand to continue staying in the autonomous city when for more than a month they have already in their possession the document allowing them to obtain asylum. The local authorities are not giving them any explanation for the moment.

A group of more than 30 Moroccans demonstrated to denounce the situation and ask the local authorities to organize their departure from the city, as they have done for other compatriots before them. Mohamed, the spokesman for the demonstrators, tells El Faro de Ceuta that he obtained the documents on August 19 at the Tarajal office, which allows him to go to the peninsula. But a month later, he still has not been able to board.

Many other Moroccan migrants who arrived in May are in the same situation as him. "They tell us to come back tomorrow, but when we show up, they don’t give us the pass. We don’t know why," he specifies. And to add: "We are claiming our right. If we have problems, let them tell us so that we can seek the advice of a lawyer to help us".

For Mohamed and his compatriots, their goal is not "to steal or get into trouble with the authorities". All they want is to leave the city and find a job to help their families in Morocco. They denounce the silence of the local authorities and ask that a solution be found to this situation.