Moroccan Woman Dies in Melilla Camp Awaiting Repatriation Amid COVID-19 Crisis

The lifeless body of the young Moroccan woman was found a few minutes before the call to prayer, marking the breaking of the fast. It was her fellow citizens who found her unconscious in one of the showers made available to them. Alerted, the Red Cross elements mobilized in the camp called the emergency services, which rushed to the scene. Despite resuscitation attempts, "the health personnel could not save her life, she was already dead," say sources close to the case to the Spanish agency Europa Press.

The death of the 34-year-old woman will be noted by a police investigator dispatched to the scene of the incident. He also ordered her transfer to the morgue where an autopsy will be performed. The theory of a heart attack is favored by the medical staff as the cause of death, but "the forensic examinations will make it possible to know the exact circumstances of her death, since the victim was bleeding from the nose and ears," according to sources close to the investigation.

The victim was born in 1986 and worked as a domestic worker in a house in Melilla. About ten days before her death, "she had been dismissed by her employers against whom she had filed a complaint." Thrown out on the street, with no one to turn to, she was found by a patrol of the Civil Guard and taken to the camp set up on the Plaza de Toros, opened after the closure of the borders decided by Morocco. "It has been hosting for nearly two months 200 Moroccans blocked in the Melilla enclave, in addition to a group of sub-Saharan migrants."