Considering that the public prosecutor’s office had "hastily" examined at the end of October the case of Iliass Tahiri, the 18-year-old Moroccan who died on July 1, 2019 at the Tierras de Oria juvenile center in Almeria, the justice system has decided to reopen the case.
The Spanish National Police arrested three people, including a woman, at the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat airport. These outlaws were transporting more than four kilos of Moroccan hashish hidden in their bodies.
The last statue of the former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco erected in Melilla was taken down on Tuesday, February 23, following a proposal supported by the Coalición por Melilla, Ciudadanos and PSOE parties.
In Ceuta , about 50% of the population speaks "Ceuti Arabic", considered the mother tongue. Despite this undeniable reality, "Ceuti Arabic" does not seem to be sufficiently representative and visible for public institutions. In a manifesto, civil society is calling on the authorities to work for the protection and officialization of this language.
What business opportunities with Morocco ? This was the focus of a videoconference organized by the Andalusian Agency for the Promotion of Exports (Extenda), which was attended by about a hundred Andalusian operators.
Ill-intentioned individuals vandalized and burned, in the early morning of Sunday, February 21, the Assafwa mosque, in the heart of the San Francisco neighborhood in San Javier, where there is a large Muslim community. The local police managed to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers.
The president of the autonomous city of Melilla , Eduardo de Castro, said in an interview on Sunday radio that relations with Morocco "are tense" due to the latter’s unilateral closure of commercial customs, and the difficulties of entering goods through Malaga and Almería. He called on the central government and the European Union to "ease these tensions".
An agent discovered, on Friday, February 19, a migrant living in a bag containing toxic waste at the port of Melilla. This announcement was made by the Guardia Civil.
Some 700 female mules will be relocated to textile factories thanks to the integrated program for economic and social development of the prefecture of M’diq-Fnideq, and the province of Tétouan, in collaboration with the National Agency for the Promotion of Employment and Skills (ANAPEC) .
In the vegetable sector in Spain, the company Frutas Azahara, led by a family of Moroccan origin, holds a prominent place. Arriving in Spain in the 1990s with little means, they have managed to emerge by revolutionizing the Spanish vegetable sector, which was embryonic at the time.
The Spanish government is accused of lying about the situation of Samir, a Moroccan currently in a coma since he was the victim of a traffic accident in Ceuta.
The imam of the Badajoz mosque, and delegate of the Islamic Commission of Spain in Extremadura, Adel Najjar, regretted on Wednesday, February 17, the refusal of the mayor of the city, Francisco Javier Fragoso, to grant a space for Muslim burials.