The Civil Guard and the Spanish police have dismantled two major cocaine and hashish trafficking networks from Tangier, Morocco, on the Andalusian coast. The drugs were hidden in tomato shipments. In total, 13 tons of hashish and 16 tons of cocaine were seized.
The Spanish authorities have reacted to the announcement by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to end the "friendship" and cooperation treaty between the two countries.
Algeria has unilaterally decided to immediately suspend the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation concluded with Spain since October 8, 2002. The reason is the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
After banning the import of Spanish cattle in April, Algeria wants to extend the measure to all commercial products from Spain. This decision violates the 2005 association agreement with the European Union.
Crops and livestock farms in Badajoz, in southwestern Spain, have been invaded and devastated by Moroccan locusts, also known as Mediterranean locusts.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, declared on Wednesday before Congress that "the Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla is beyond doubt". He says he has discussed this with King Mohammed VI.
Spain and Morocco have not reached an agreement on the reopening of the commercial customs in Melilla and the creation of a new one in Ceuta, during the meeting held on Tuesday in Madrid. The two countries have planned to meet again "in the coming days" on this subject.
The Secretary General of the Popular Party (PP) of Melilla, Miguel Marín, insisted on Monday on the necessary "reciprocity" in the goods traffic through the land borders of Ceuta and Melilla with Morocco.
The judicial investigation into the Ghali affair will remain open for at least another six months. This is the decision of the investigating judge of the Saragossa court, Rafael Lasala, after the provisional dismissal pronounced with regard to the former minister, Arancha González Laya.
Swept away last July by the Ghali affair which provoked a serious diplomatic crisis with Morocco, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzales Laya, mentions "telephone tappings, complaints, campaigns, including press campaigns" which have "served to blur this humanitarian aid" provided to the Polisario leader, Brahim Ghali.
The public prosecutor’s office of the Saragossa court has requested Monday 21 years in prison against the Moroccan Mohamed A. and his companion, Elena Loredana N., accused by a woman of Moroccan origin of having stolen her, sexually assaulted her and even forced her into prostitution.
The Alicante prosecutor’s office has filed a complaint against the directors of the Hércules club and its Foundation for not having declared the amount received for the transfer of Moroccan winger Abde Ezzalzouli to FC Barcelona last summer, thus avoiding paying part of their tax debt which amounts to around four million euros.