Rumors have circulated in recent days in Valencia, a Spanish city affected by the Dana depression, indicating that this weather phenomenon would be caused by Morocco. This is not the case, assure Spanish experts.
Two individuals are accused of having forged driving licenses for some 90 Moroccan nationals in Ceuta. They risk two to three years in prison.
Two tankers, the chemical tanker Southern Puma and the bulk carrier Louisa Bolten, collided on Friday morning in the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, off the coast of Morocco.
A second death has been confirmed among Moroccan nationals in Spain, bringing to two the number of victims among Moroccans, following the devastating floods that hit the south and east of the country. The Consul General of Morocco in Valencia, Saïd El Idrissi Bouzidi, announced this new death, while the search continues to find 45 missing Moroccans.
Moroccans represent the largest nationality in Spanish prisons, with 3,841 individuals, or 27% of the total. This figure places Morocco far ahead of other nationalities, exceeding the number of Colombian, Romanian and Algerian inmates combined.
The Spanish Navy has deployed the amphibious assault ship Galicia (L-51) in the city of Melilla, near Moroccan waters. A clear message sent to the kingdom that claims this territory.
Faced with severe drought, Spain is considering building desalination plants, as Morocco has already done, which has been suffering from a water shortage for six years due to lack of rainfall.
Faced with the violent floods that have hit southeastern Spain, causing the death of at least 158 people, Morocco has activated its crisis cell.
The Spanish Navy has sent for the third time this year the auxiliary ship Mar Caribe near Moroccan waters. The objective is to supply water, fuel and various equipment to the military detachments on the Spanish islands and rocks claimed by Morocco.
The Moroccan consulate in Murcia has decided to dispense with the services of the security guard who assaulted on Tuesday a Moroccan who had come to retrieve his passport .
The Spanish government has launched a tender for the rental with an option to purchase four seismometers in order to study the seabed of the Strait of Gibraltar as part of the tunnel project with Morocco.
While he went to the Moroccan consulate in Murcia, accompanied by his wife, to retrieve his passport, a Moroccan residing in Spain was assaulted by a security guard.