Moroccan Kickboxing Champion’s Body Repatriated After Fatal Sea Crossing to Spain

10 January 2019 – bySaid · 1 min read

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.

His remains had been found by Guardia Civil agents last November on one of the beaches in Cadiz, in southern Spain. His photo had been recognized by his relatives and DNA tests had finally confirmed his identity.

Triple Moroccan kick-boxing champion and a big fan of Badr Hari, Ayoub Mabrouk was buried yesterday, Wednesday, in Salé alongside other victims of this shipwreck that had claimed about twenty lives.

Last month, five bodies had already been repatriated to Morocco. For the victims’ relatives, it is a relief to be able to bury them and thus definitively mourn, wrote the newspaper El Faro de Ceuta, which recalled that these young people died in front of their companions just a few dozen meters from the coast of Barbate, in the Cadiz region.