The diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Madrid seems to have already had a negative impact on Spain. The United States and Morocco , as well as other countries, are busy preparing for African Lion 2021, scheduled for June 7-18 without the northern neighbor.
In Spain, many Moroccans are victims of networks specializing in white marriages, who exploit Romanian and Bulgarian nationals. The Spanish police have dismantled some of them.
The diplomatic crisis between Morocco and Spain caused by the hospitalization of Brahim Ghali, the Polisario chief, in Logroño under the assumed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, an Algerian national, is worsening. The first vice-president of the Spanish government, Carmen Calvo, accuses Rabat of having exceeded "the limit of good neighborliness".
The Madrid court of the National High Court, which deals with terrorism cases, sentenced three Moroccans on Thursday, May 27, to heavy sentences for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17, 2017.
The Spanish intelligence services (CNI) continue their investigation into the arrival of nearly 10,000 Moroccans in Ceuta. The emergency admission of Brahim Ghali to a hospital in Logroño under a false identity on April 18 remains a source of tension between Morocco and Spain.
Faced with the migrant "invasion" of Ceuta, the president of the Spanish far-right party Vox, Santiago Abascal, calls on the European Union to take responsibility for protecting and defending its border with Morocco.
Manuel Ollé, lawyer and expert in international criminal law, will defend the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, during his appearance on June 1 before the High National Court.
The fruit and vegetable producer associations of Almería, Coexphal and Aproa, will demonstrate this Friday to protest against the drop in melon and watermelon prices due to Moroccan competition on European markets.
Mohamed Louarti, a radicalized Moroccan who considers himself a "soldier" of the Islamic State, has accepted a sentence of two and a half years in prison for a crime of passive indoctrination. His defense managed to reach this agreement with the prosecution, which had requested eight years in prison against him for a crime of integration into a terrorist organization.
He was firm and objective. Former Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia-Margallo has sharply challenged the position currently adopted by Spanish leaders on the Sahara issue. Invited Tuesday evening on a Spanish radio station, he indicated that his successor is on the wrong track and must revise his copy.
Dozens of unaccompanied Moroccan minor migrants are wandering the streets of the city of Ceuta, waiting to cross the strait to reach Spain. Already 6,500 minors out of the more than 8,000 who arrived by swimming in Ceuta at the beginning of last week have been repatriated to Morocco.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez categorically rejected on Monday, at the European Council, the proposal to suspend the allocation of European funds to Morocco, pending the kingdom’s further strengthening of its border control after the massive arrival of migrants in Ceuta at the beginning of last week.