The leader of the opposition and president of the Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, has asked the government of Pedro Sanchez to strengthen security at the borders of Ceuta and Melilla by deploying a permanent military contingent there.
A 19-year-old Moroccan with a long criminal record was arrested by the Spanish police after assaulting and burning three of his Moroccan homeless compatriots who were sleeping in a bar that had been closed for a few months in the Casino de la Reina park in Madrid.
The Moroccan Consulate in Las Palmas was attacked last weekend by individuals who vandalized the plaque on the wall of the building.
Zakaria, a young Moroccan living in the Basque Country, has lost several members of his family at sea. His brother, sister, brother-in-law and young niece are among the 31 victims of the shipwrecked boat that was found in Cape Verde with three bodies on board.
The Vox party plans to introduce a bill in Congress to tighten the conditions for obtaining Spanish nationality for Moroccan nationals.
Based on the Spanish investigations after the plane incident in Majorca , Morocco has opened an investigation to determine the outlines and the people involved in this case.
The Madrid provincial prosecutor’s office has filed a complaint against María Isabel Medina Peralta for having "incited" violence towards Moroccan and Muslim migrants during a demonstration in front of the Moroccan embassy in Madrid on May 18, in the midst of a migration crisis.
The Spanish authorities claim that the Moroccan passenger who had simulated a health problem in order to allow the escape of other passengers at Palma airport is known to the justice system.
The crisis between Algeria and Morocco has led to the non-renewal of the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline. Spain, heavily impacted by this Algerian decision to suspend gas exports via Morocco, will have to settle for Medgaz, a pipeline with a smaller capacity, which cannot meet its high demand. Morocco, for its part, finds itself unable to import gas from Spain via the same pipeline.
While it had taken off from Casablanca, Morocco for Istanbul, Turkey, the Airbus A320 of the airline Air Arabia Maroc, was diverted to Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Since then, the Spanish police have been investigating to find out if the reason that led to the emergency landing was not a plan put together from scratch.
The Vox party, through the voice of its deputy in Ceuta, Teresa López, insisted on Friday on the need for Spain and the European Union to strengthen security at the borders with Morocco in order to effectively fight against illegal immigration which, according to her, is increasing in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
On Friday, about twenty passengers from Morocco took advantage of the evacuation of a supposedly sick traveler on the tarmac of Palma de Mallorca airport (Spain) to flee. Six of them were arrested.