Najat Kaanache , the Basque-Moroccan chef, has just announced the opening in the fall of Ziryab, her first restaurant in Spain, more precisely in Seville. She will also give Andalusian cooking classes at the Seville School of Hospitality.
Finding a job to integrate into society and send money to their families in Morocco. This is the dream of most former underage migrants who have become adults in Spain.
Moroccan businessman residing in Barcelona, Mamoun Rtal Bennani, and his friend, Emmanuel Rouffio, a French animator, have been missing for a month as they left France for the Balearic Islands on a sailboat. Their families are desperately searching for them.
Of the 144,012 foreigners residing in Spain who obtained Spanish nationality in 2021 (14.1% more than the previous year), 42,000 are Moroccans. Most have been legally living in the peninsula for at least ten years.
Nabil Lakhdar, Director General of Customs of Morocco, affirms that it will be possible to establish a customs infrastructure with Ceuta and Melilla. Beforehand, certain necessary modifications will have to be made.
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 president of the Port Authority of Almería (APA), Jesús Caicedo, held a meeting with the Moroccan vice-consuls in Almería, Mohamed Es-Sette and Nadia Sanbi, to prepare the Marhaba Operation which will take place this summer, after two years of cancellation due to the health crisis.
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.
The Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal network dedicated to hashish trafficking from Morocco that has started using minors to introduce this drug into Melilla after the closure of the borders between Spain and Morocco. In total, 24 people were arrested and 275 kilos of hashish seized.
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.