
Morocco Emerges as Top Travel Destination for Spanish Tourists, Mobile Data Shows
Morocco is among the preferred destinations of residents of Cadiz during the month of April 2022, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Morocco is among the preferred destinations of residents of Cadiz during the month of April 2022, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

The president of the Association of Moroccans of Salamanca, Simo Rhafir, is happy to return to Morocco in July as part of the Marhaba Operation. He has not visited his relatives for three years.

The Spanish protocol service was not associated with the preparation of the room where King Mohammed VI offered an iftar (breaking of the fast) in honor of President Pedro Sanchez during his visit to Rabat on April 7. This is the official response of the Spanish government regarding the upside-down flag noticed at this royal dinner.

Unvaccinated Moroccan travelers and other non-EU nationals can now enter Spain by simply presenting a negative test.

Morocco always manages to get the upper hand over Spain in times of crisis because it has put in place, for decades, a strategy that allows it to act at the right time. This is the view of some Spanish diplomatic circles, who note a lack of strategy on Spain’s part in this process of normalizing relations with the kingdom.

Basma Belrhalia Laouar, a Moroccan student in journalism at the University of Murcia (UMU), denounced on Tik Tok the racist behavior of her language teacher at the Cartagena high school, who regularly suspended her because of her Moroccan origin.

Spain and Morocco will soon try to find a solution to the problem of the delimitation of the Canary and Moroccan waters, but also of the waters of the Sahara. Rabat would like to offer contracts to Spanish wind power companies in exchange for control of the airspace of the Sahara, currently managed by Spain.

The Girona court sentenced a 56-year-old Moroccan man to 11 years in prison for having sequestered and assaulted his ex-wife in Mollet del Vallès (Barcelona). He is also prohibited from approaching the victim within 500 meters for 12 years and must pay her the sum of 6,490 euros in damages.

The National Court has refused Spanish nationality to a Moroccan residing in the province of Cáceres (Extremadura), based on a report from the National Intelligence Center (CNI) which considers him to be a radical Islamist and therefore a threat to national security.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, underlined on Wednesday the advantages for the Canary Islands of the resumption of relations with Morocco, in particular the reduction of illegal immigration and the possibility of establishing maritime links.

The police dismantled a criminal network specialized in the celebration of fake marriages between Spanish citizens and foreigners of Moroccan origin in order to obtain residence permits for the latter. In total, 129 people were arrested and 72 fake marriages were detected.

The police have arrested 11 individuals accused of migrant trafficking. They would have illegally brought in 160 migrants to Cadiz from Ceuta, including 60 minors who arrived in May during the migration crisis.