It did not take long for the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) to react to the article published on June 9, 2019 in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. It decided to file a complaint against the daily and the author of the article for allegations damaging the reputation of an institution and the honor of its Secretary General, Abdallah Boussouf.
The Northern Observatory for Human Rights has just condemned the detention by the Moroccan authorities of several sub-Saharan migrants in a dilapidated building that threatens to collapse.
Undoubtedly, a first. Due to lack of passengers at Zaragoza airport, in northern Spain, it has been decided to cancel all flights to Morocco and, more precisely, the one to Oujda.
A young Moroccan woman was operated on last Sunday, following atrocious abdominal pains. The surgeons had to extract 20 cocaine capsules from her body, which she had swallowed, after Eid al-Fitr, with the intention of going to Spain.
One of the last convicted persons in the attacks that hit the city of Madrid in 2004, namely Hassan el Haski, has just been extradited to Morocco by the Spanish authorities. He will not be at peace either, as he will have to serve a 10-year sentence for another case.
Yassine Bounou wants to leave his current club FC Girona, which will play next year in the Spanish second division championship (Liga 2). Discussions could be held with the club’s management with a view to a departure during the summer transfer window.
A drug trafficking operation was thwarted by Customs services at the Bab Sebta border post, in northern Morocco. A large quantity of drugs was seized.
A Moroccan and his Mexican wife could well see the sentences they were given in court in Spain annulled or reduced. They had been sentenced to six years and one year in prison respectively. But they have never stopped claiming they were innocent. They will be retried.
The balance of tourists seems to have been reversed in 2018 between Morocco and Spain. More than 900,000 Moroccan travelers chose the Iberian neighbor for their holidays, while only 800,000 Spaniards set foot on Moroccan soil.
20,000 Moroccan seasonal workers have gone to work in the strawberry fields this year, under an agreement between Morocco and Spain. To make up for the labor shortage, the province of Segovia, in the center of the country, has offered 268 employment contracts.
A Spanish photographer, reportedly close to the Polisario Front according to some media sources, was asked to leave Laâyoune, heading to Agadir, as she did not have the proper authorizations for what she was actually coming to do.
Toni Roderic, one of the leaders of the Spanish Green party, becomes Jamal. He came to Morocco last weekend. And he went to visit the Zawiya Boutchichiya.