The hashtag #GraciasLuna "thank you Luna" is sweeping social media in support of a volunteer at the Spanish Red Cross. This 20-year-old Spanish woman is the victim of a vast campaign of insults for having comforted a migrant in distress in Ceuta.
The tone continues to rise between Rabat and Madrid. While Spain accuses Morocco of blackmailing on the migration issue, the head of Moroccan diplomacy, Nasser Bourita, affirms that Spain has chosen the path of diversion and insults to conceal the real cause of the crisis between the two neighboring countries.
The Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (Asadedh) and the Sahrawi activist Fadel Breika, who filed a complaint against the Polisario leader and called for his immediate arrest before his appearance on June 1, did not prevail. The position of Santiago Pedraz Gomez, the investigating judge at the Spanish National Court in charge of the case, remains unchanged. No precautionary measures against Brahim Ghali .
The issue of Moroccan minor migrants who have landed on the Spanish coasts in the last 48 hours continues to divide the political class in Spain. The Spanish far-right party Vox is outraged that these minors have been welcomed instead of being sent back home.
The nine new coronavirus cases detected in Ceuta are linked to the recent mass arrivals from Morocco. This is what the Spanish Ministry of Health indicated on Thursday, during its daily update on the evolution of the epidemiological situation in the country.
The United States on Wednesday called on Spain and Morocco to work together to resolve the crisis in the autonomous city of Ceuta. In recent days, 8,000 Moroccan migrants in an irregular situation, according to official Spanish sources, have arrived in the city, despite the many repatriations to Morocco already carried out.
Royal Air Maroc should launch next month two new routes to Barcelona, departing from Nador and Marrakech. All the airline is waiting for is the lifting, on June 10, of the state of emergency imposed due to the health crisis.
The former President of the Spanish government, José María Aznar, sharply criticized on Tuesday the way the Spanish executive is handling the current crisis with Morocco, stressing that the socialist government led by Pedro Sánchez was unable to anticipate the Moroccan response. However, he recalled the current leaders’ responsibility to guarantee Spain’s territorial integrity.
The Spanish police are said to have shot at Moroccan migrants near the borders with the enclave of Ceuta, injuring two. The two injured are said to be out of danger.
Europe "will not be intimidated by anyone" on the migration issue. A statement made on Wednesday by the Vice-President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, commenting on the massive influx of migrants from the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta coming from Morocco.
Faced with the influx of migrants, especially minors who arrived in Ceuta between Monday and Tuesday, Spain has opened 250 reception centers in Andalusia to house them. Of different nationalities including Moroccan, these minors were counted among the 6,000 irregular migrants who reached Ceuta by swimming or on inflatable boats.
An extreme right-wing group called "the Phalangist Youth" organized a demonstration near the headquarters of the Moroccan Embassy in Madrid on Tuesday to protest the massive arrival of migrants in Ceuta . One of the protesters tried to burn the Moroccan flag.