Morocco Recalls Ambassador as Migrant Crisis Escalates with Spain

The Moroccan ambassador to Spain, recalled to Rabat "will not return as long as the crisis lasts, and it will last as long as its true cause persists". Nasser Bourita is referring to the hospitalization in Spain of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, "under undignified conditions for a state of law". This attitude aims to avoid "his appearance before the Spanish justice system," said the Moroccan Foreign Minister, during a brief press point.

On the issue of the wave of migrants who, by the thousands, have joined Sebta at the beginning of the week, Bourita said that this avalanche was due "to the fatigue of the Moroccan police after the end-of-Ramadan festivities," but also "the total inaction of the Spanish police," which, according to him, is deployed at a rate of one policeman for a hundred Moroccan agents in the border areas.

During the press conference, the Minister of Foreign Affairs denounced "the campaign of media hostility" led by Spanish media, both public and private, through "biased coverage against Morocco, sometimes involving high-ranking state officials."