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For several weeks, wild rumors have been circulating about a possible interest of the Moroccan Abu Azaitar, reputed to be close to King Mohammed VI, in the acquisition of Club Deportivo Tenerife, the football club of the Canary Islands.
The rumors intensified after the release of images of the businessman Rayco García, the current chairman of the board of the club, in the company of the Moroccan Abu Azaitar, an MMA fighter, and Rosa Dávila, the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife. The (…)

The dissemination of a video showing a 25-year-old Moroccan man being electrocuted on a high-speed train (AVE) wagon at the Lleida-Pyrenees station has sparked a wave of racism on social networks.
The incident occurred last Tuesday. The young Moroccan climbed onto a high-speed train wagon at the Lleida-Pyrenees station and was electrocuted by touching the catenary, reports Infobae. A few hours later, an Internet user posted on the social network X the video showing the victim agonizing (…)

A 24-year-old Spaniard residing in Melilla accepted, for a payment of more than 1,000 euros, to recognize the paternity of the baby of a Moroccan woman who gave birth at the regional hospital of the autonomous city. The young man was arrested by the Unit for the Fight against Illegal Immigration Networks and Forged Documents (UCRIF).
The young man completed all the necessary formalities at the hospital and the civil registry in order to obtain Spanish identity documents for the newborn (…)

The trial of Ali Khouch, a 39-year-old Moroccan, accused of killing his pregnant wife and their 7-year-old son in Sa Pobla (Majorca) in May 2021, continued this Monday, January 27 before the provincial court of the Balearic Islands. The defendant confessed to his crime. He faces life imprisonment.
Prosecuted for murder and homicide, the defendant defended himself before a popular jury. Contrary to his defense, which had stated in its provisional memorandum that he was unaware of his (…)

The fishing associations of Murcia denounce the massive import of fish from Morocco. According to them, these products do not comply with European fishing regulations.
The fishing professionals in Murcia cry out against unfair competition from Morocco, which is flooding the community markets with fish that would not comply with European regulations. Bartolomé Navarro, the president of the Murcian Federation of Fishing Associations, cites the example of grouper, whose minimum size, (…)

Due to Storm Herminia in the Campo de Gibraltar, almost all connections to Tangier from the port of Tarifa have been canceled this Monday. The ferry scheduled to reach the Moroccan port from Algeciras this morning has also been suspended.
In the port of Tarifa, three ferries of the Africa Morocco Link company scheduled to reach Tangier on Monday at 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. respectively, have been canceled. The departures of the FRS company ferries, scheduled to leave at 5:00 (…)

Several shootings have been recorded in Marbella in recent months. Most of them are settling of scores between rival gangs active in drug trafficking, particularly of cocaine and hashish, some of which are of Moroccan origin.
Four shootings were recorded during the year-end periods. On December 7, a 30-year-old man died after receiving several bullets to the head. The incident, which occurred in broad daylight, in the early morning, in Fuengirola (Malaga), marked the end of a period of (…)

A small scare at El Prat airport in Barcelona. On Friday, a bus transporting passengers from the terminal to the Ryanair plane that was to take off for Morocco had an accident, injuring about ten people, including the driver.
The ambulances of the Medical Emergency System (SEM) were quickly deployed on the spot following the accident that occurred on a service road at El Prat airport, reports ElCaso.com. More scared than hurt. The incident did not cause significant human and material (…)

Spain has been conducting military exercises in Melilla for a few days in order to fend off any possible attack from Morocco, which maintains its claims on Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the Spanish islands and rocks.
According to the general command of Melilla, the soldiers of the second company of the first legion of the Tercio "Gran Capitan" carried out maneuvers in the autonomous city in order to prepare to face "any situation". As for the soldiers of the first company, they underwent (…)

Spanish public television TVE is at the center of a controversy. The channel broadcast a map of Morocco over the weekend that included the Sahara, prompting the Polisario Front to demand the correction of this "error".
TVE broadcast twice over the weekend a world map showing the Sahara as part of Morocco, reports El Independiente. The Polisario Front immediately seized the channel to demand that this error be corrected, recalling that the Western Sahara is still considered by the UN as an (…)