Moroccan Minors Risk Lives in Dangerous ’Riski’ Method to Reach Spain

Every day, migrants, young and old, try to land in Europe, whatever the risks. The "Riski", which is a method practiced daily by dozens of Moroccan children (and adults), specifies larazon.es, allows candidates for illegal immigration to access one of the four ships that connect Melilla to the peninsula.

The migrants who engage in this dangerous and risky attempt are monitored by the Civil Guard, which tries to thwart this illegal practice.

To access the European borders, migrants generally use three routes: either by swimming through the south dike, sixty meters from Morocco; or directly through the borders, using the family passport; or by hiding in trucks or buses.

Most of the children are usually boys, but there are also a few girls who are welcomed by the nuns of the Divine Infantitas. In addition to these children, who have mostly abandoned school benches for the street, there are the MENAS who wander the streets and end up living in shacks built around the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI).

Faced with the phenomenon of illegal immigration, which is affecting part of its youth, Morocco is struggling to find effective solutions, at least for the moment. Morocco and Spain are two nations condemned to understand each other, as they have many common interests and a long history of coexistence, despite the gaps that always occur between neighbors, writes the newspaper.