While a Spanish court has temporarily suspended the repatriation to Morocco of Moroccan minors from Ceuta, Fernando Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, still holds to it.
The return to Morocco of the minors who arrived in Ceuta in May has increased the tension within the Spanish government. The Podemos party accuses the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, of having engaged in these illegal collective returns of minors without involving his counterpart in charge of Social Rights.
Spain’s return of the minors with Morocco’s agreement is proof that the restoration of relations between the two countries is on the right track.
Since the launch on Friday of the operation to repatriate minors, the streets of Ceuta are increasingly filled with these boys who are escaping from the shelters, preferring to live as homeless people rather than return to Morocco.
The young Morad, 16 years old, was part of the group of 15 minors from the Santa Amelia sports center repatriated on Sunday to Morocco. But he remains determined to return to Spain as soon as possible to build a better future for himself.
A Spanish court suspended on Monday the repatriation to Morocco of a group of minors who arrived in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta during the migratory wave recorded last May. The justice thus grants the request of two NGOs who had requested the blocking of the expulsions of twelve young migrants who had sought their help.
The repatriation operation of Moroccan minors launched last Friday by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior has had an unexpected effect. The minors, fearing to return to Morocco, are escaping from the reception centers to find themselves wandering the streets of Ceuta.
The local police in Palma arrested a 20-year-old Moroccan on Saturday for using a fake 50-euro banknote in a shop.
The court in Girona, in northern Spain, sentenced a Moroccan man to 8 years in prison for repeatedly raping and kidnapping a young woman in an apartment in 2015.
The Civil Guard, thanks to strong citizen collaboration, proceeded to arrest two men, suspected drug traffickers, in Granada. In total, more than 700 kilos of Moroccan hashish were seized.
The Ceuta court did not react favorably to the request to suspend the repatriation of seven Moroccan migrant minors. The judge did not have time to rule on the case because the return of the minors was carried out in advance.
The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, giving explanations on the return of minors to Morocco, indicated that it is not an expulsion and that the operation is carried out in compliance with the regulations in force.