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The competent authorities of Melilla reported on Saturday the discovery of a second rabid dog at the border with Morocco.
According to the department of social policies, this new case was diagnosed by the animal health and zoonosis unit. It is an adult medium-sized dog with short, black and white fur, spotted on April 8 in the beach area, near the border with Morocco, relays Ok Diario.
The animal, which showed symptoms of rabies, died the next day, April 9, informs the General (…)

The Spanish army has deployed a tactical sub-group of the regular army group to carry out a reconnaissance and surveillance mission in sensitive areas of Melilla, not far from Morocco.
This mission, conducted by GREG 52 and part of early warning plans, aims to ensure the security of Spanish citizens in these areas and preserve the integrity of Spanish territory against potential threats, according to the Spanish General Staff cited by El Debate. The Spanish army has been carrying out (…)

Why a tunnel rather than a bridge under the strait to connect Spain and Morocco? The tunnel option was chosen due to its lower cost and minimal environmental impact.
Spain and Morocco are working on the construction of the tunnel under the strait before the 2030 World Cup, which they are jointly organizing with Portugal. For now, the project is still in the study phase. When it was first mentioned forty years ago, several options were proposed for the project to build a fixed link between (…)

Foreigners, including Moroccans, holding Spanish nationality, have been admitted to training for integration into the Guardia Civil, the Spanish Gendarmerie.
A total of 2,494 students are entering the Baeza academy, where future Guardia Civil officers are trained. In this new class, which nurtures the desire to serve and protect Spanish citizens, there are 84 students of foreign origin, including eleven Moroccans, one Malian, one Libyan, one Cameroonian, two Russians, and six Romanians. A (…)

The Spanish government has ended the golden visa that allowed foreigners, including Moroccans, to obtain a residence permit if they invested at least 500,000 euros in real estate.
Pedro Sanchez abolished the golden visa after introducing an amendment to the law on the efficiency of justice in Congress on April 3. The text was approved without debate. In 12 years of application, the golden visa allowed 14,576 foreigners, including Moroccans, to obtain a residence permit on the condition of (…)

The far-right party Vox denounced on Wednesday the exorbitant tariffs of up to 200% imposed by Morocco on Andalusian products, calling on the Spanish government to act to end this situation.
The deputy spokesman of the Vox parliamentary group in Andalusia, Rodrigo Alonso, denounced on Wednesday, during a press conference, the silence of the government of Pedro Sánchez in the face of this alleged commercial inequality that has persisted "for a long time". "For the goat meat that we export (…)

The Guardia Civil has arrested three people for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping and sequestration of a man of Moroccan origin in Oropesa del Mar (Castellón).
The three suspects, two Moroccans and a Spaniard, kidnapped the victim, then held him captive for two days in an apartment where they forced him to provide his bank details to empty his accounts. They also recorded videos of the handcuffed Moroccan that they then sent to his family in Morocco to demand a ransom of 30,000 (…)

Sentenced to life for drug trafficking in Oman, Fátima Ofkir, a 25-year-old Spaniard today, was granted amnesty after seven years in prison. The young woman returned to Barcelona a week ago.
Whose father is Moroccan had been recruited by a drug trafficking network in Spain, which had sent her to Oman to retrieve a package containing seven kilos of morphine. Arrested in this country, she will be sentenced to life imprisonment. But after seven years in prison, she was pardoned by the Sultan (…)

Civil Guard officers at the port of Ceuta would be accomplices of a drug trafficking network that was bringing in large shipments into the autonomous city from Morocco via a secret tunnel. They would have received 120,000 euros for this collaboration.
The investigation opened after the discovery, on February 19 in Sebta, of the narco-tunnel following the seizure of large quantities of hashish in Algeciras, revealed the complicity of the Civil Guards of the port of the autonomous city with (…)

The Spanish police arrested at the Ceuta (Tarajal) border post a Dutch national of Moroccan origin wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking.
The suspect was arrested on Thursday, during a routine check carried out by the Spanish police at the border between Ceuta and Morocco. By verifying his identity in the database, the agents discovered that the suspect was the subject of an Interpol red notice issued the same day.
The Dutch national of Moroccan origin S. K was arrested as he was (…)