Algeria has reduced the amount of natural gas it supplies to Spain via the Medgaz pipeline by about 25% compared to mid-March levels, according to daily monitoring data collected by Enagás, the Spanish energy company.
Vicente Díaz de Villegas, former general commander of Melilla, now retired, has stated that "not a single migrant should be allowed to cross the border of Ceuta or Melilla" with Morocco.
Morocco would have spied on Spanish officials, including the President of the Government Pedro Sanchez , the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the former Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, using the Israeli software Pegasus. An investigation is underway to shed light on this case.
The administrative chamber of the Supreme Court has annulled a decision of the Melilla government council of May 13, 2019 which establishes the obligation of a visa for minors from Nador before their registration in the autonomous city, considering it "discriminatory".
Arrived at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) last summer from Inter Milan, Achraf Hakimi would consider leaving the club by next season. The imminent departure for Real Madrid of his teammate, Kylian Mbappé, with whom he has a close friendship since his arrival at the Parc des Princes, is the reason.
A Moroccan woman filed a complaint against her husband, also of Moroccan origin, before the court of Zaragoza. She is asking to have him convicted of rape.
The Spanish authorities suspect Morocco of being behind the hacking of the phones of Pedro Sanchez and Margarita Robles using the Pegasus software, but avoid publicly stating this due to ongoing agreements with the kingdom for the reopening of borders with Ceuta and Melilla among others.
Morocco would be the author of espionage using Pegasus on more than 200 Spanish mobile phones in 2019, according to a report by the network of journalists Forbidden Stories published on Tuesday by the British newspaper The Guardian.
Despite the suspicions weighing on Morocco regarding the hacking of Pedro Sanchez’s phone using the Pegasus software, the Spanish government is keen to maintain good relations with the kingdom, but with caution.
Algeria continues to threaten to cut off gas supplies to Spain if it supplies Morocco as part of its new partnership with the latter.
Morocco and Spain are actively preparing the Marhaba 2022 operation , after two years of suspension. A meeting is scheduled for May 5 in Rabat to review the final preparations.
The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, insisted on Tuesday on the need to strengthen the defense of the borders of Ceuta and Melilla with Morocco "to make them less vulnerable".