Morocco Denies Entry to Undocumented Migrant Deported from Spain

An unprecedented event at Marrakech-Menara airport. According to well-informed sources from Moroccan aviation authorities, Marrakech-Menara airport recorded, last Friday, the arrival of a flight from Barcelona, on board of which were two private security agents accompanied by an irregular migrant without any identity documents or legal travel documents. There is no evidence that the migrant expelled from Spain is of Moroccan nationality.

This repatriation operation was not only carried out without prior coordination and without respect for the legal and regulatory rules governing this type of procedure, but it also violates the most basic rules of human rights, specifies this source to Hespress. Moroccan police services noted that the migrant was restrained with a plastic rope. Based on these findings, the Moroccan authorities immediately sent the migrant back, accompanied by the two private security agents, on the same flight to Barcelona. They also informed the competent authorities of this flagrant violation of the fundamental rules of international security cooperation.

"Would the Spanish authorities have accepted to receive a migrant in this humiliating manner and outside the legal framework?" questions an official source. According to their explanations, the protection of migrants is an integral part of the human rights system. "And, the procedure for handing over irregular migrants is framed by a legal mechanism governed by common agreements and instruments guaranteeing the rights of individuals and respecting the sovereignty of states," they added.