Bilal M., a Moroccan who assaulted a plainclothes police inspector on a bus in Zaragoza last year, was sentenced on Friday to two and a half years in prison with probation and to pay 12,345 euros in damages.
The Popular Party (PP) filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office on Friday to denounce the installation of fish farms by Morocco in Spanish waters, arguing that these acts constitute a crime against natural resources and the environment.
Like Morocco, which opened its office of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) in Rabat last year, Spain will open its office in Madrid next September. This, in order to strengthen counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries.
Oil companies have asked the Spanish government that foreign tourists and vehicles of Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) as part of the Marhaba Operation do not benefit from the 20-cent-per-liter reduction in the price of gasoline at the pump.
After missing last year’s edition due to the diplomatic crisis with Morocco, Spain will also not participate in the "African Lion 22" military exercises organized by the American and Moroccan armies, which will be held from June 20 to July 1 in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Ghana.
The Director General of Moroccan Customs, Nabil Lakhdar, said that "there will be no commercial customs" in Ceuta, adding that "the border crossings of Ceuta and Melilla are only small corridors for customs controls".
Imprisoned for 12 years for terrorism, the Belgian of Moroccan origin Ali Aarrass would have been a victim of torture in Spain and Morocco, according to an international expert assessment. His lawyers are demanding justice.
Spain plans to grant more visas to foreign workers, including Moroccans , to fill its shortage of qualified profiles.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska assured on Thursday from Brussels that Ceuta and Melilla already have "all the support" of the government, without specifying whether the latter is studying the possibility of integrating the two autonomous cities into the Schengen area.
The Socialist MEP, Lopez Aguilar, believes that the European Parliament would not object to supporting the removal of the Schengen visa exemption granted to Moroccans from Tetouan or the accession of Ceuta to the customs union.
About a month after the reopening of the borders between Morocco and Spain , some 116,000 passengers transited through the ports of Tanger, according to the government.
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, reassured deputies in Congress that the territorial integrity of Spain and Ceuta and Melilla is "fully guaranteed" by the government.