A new practice is being observed among Moroccan parents in Bilbao. They regularly bring their underage children from Morocco, then abandon them in the city so that they can be placed in centers for unaccompanied foreign minors and benefit from the reception network of the Provincial Council of Biscay.
During the Spanish dating show "First Dates" aired on the Cuatro channel, Hamza, a 21-year-old young man of Moroccan origin, asked his guest Gisela, a 19-year-old Spanish woman, to convert to Islam. The sequence sparked a lively controversy on social media.
The health authorities of Melilla have reported a new case of rabies coming from Morocco.
From the Fnideq coast in Morocco, Rafie Nadi, a 23-year-old Egyptian, embarked on a perilous journey to reach Europe by swimming, accompanied by a friend. For more than 40 hours, he floated in the Mediterranean, supported only by a buoy and flippers, and narrowly escaped death.
Following the recent veto imposed by Pedro Sanchez on any purchase of weapons from Israel, the Spanish Ministry of Defense has canceled the order for the SILAM high-mobility rocket launcher, based on the PULS system, of Israeli manufacture, recently acquired by Morocco.
The Spanish army is conducting military exercises off the Moroccan coast. These maneuvers called Sinergia 25 would be causing concern in Morocco where they are considered "large-scale military operations".
The United States has approved two $100 million projects to improve the facilities of the Rota naval base. A significant investment that suggests the announced transfer of this US base to Morocco is no longer on the agenda.
Journalist Ignacio Cembrero has criticized the silence of the authorities in Ceuta and the Spanish government in the face of the "consented" asphyxiation of the autonomous city by Morocco.
Moroccan truckers on their way to Europe claim to have been fined in Spain because the capacity of their vehicle tanks exceeds the authorized limit of 200 liters of fuel.
Journalist Neus Sala recounts the story of Nada Itrab, a 19-year-old Moroccan woman who was rescued in March 2014 by two civil guards in a Bolivian jungle where she had been held captive for seven months.
Drug traffickers have made the Spanish bay of Algeciras the gateway for Moroccan hashish into Europe. And the “business” shows no sign of slowing down.
More than 1,800 students are learning the Arabic language and Moroccan culture in 122 schools in Catalonia this year, as part of an official program conducted in collaboration between the Generalitat and the Kingdom of Morocco.