Moroccan Border Guards Arrested for Human Trafficking Near Algeria

The Moroccan agents were arrested for offenses related, among other things, to human trafficking, said sources close to the case to EFE, without giving more details on the charges against them.

The 16 soldiers concerned were arrested for "disobedience to orders," a daily Arabic newspaper believes, specifying that thirteen of them were sentenced to prison terms. They will serve their sentences in the Al-Arjat 1 prison, near Rabat. The three others were granted provisional release.

It should be recalled that migrants, particularly sub-Saharan Africans, enter Morocco through this border with Algeria in an attempt to reach Spain by land via the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.