While he had taken refuge in Tangier, Morocco for seven months, Karim El Baqqali, suspected of the death of two civil guards in the port of Barbate (Cadiz) last February, surrendered to the Spanish authorities last week.
The Spanish Society for Studies on Fixed Communication through the Strait of Gibraltar (SECEGSA) has recently launched a call for tenders for the rental with option to purchase of four seismometers in order to study the seabed of the strait as part of the project to build a tunnel connecting Spain and Morocco.
The Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT), has authorized the installation of a series of information panels aimed at warning road users, particularly Moroccans residing abroad (MREs), of potential dangers. The objective is to improve road safety and promote more responsible driving.
The Spanish police arrested at the beginning of the week a man of Spanish origin, director of a firm specializing in the processing of foreigners’ documentation in the city of Melilla, for having defrauded a Moroccan woman to whom he had promised to issue a residence permit in Spain.
A Moroccan residing in Melilla is contesting the seizure of 11.2 liters of olive oil during his crossing at the Beni-Enzar border. He believes he was the victim of an abuse of power by the authorities.
Last year, Morocco acquired from the Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) the spy satellite Ofek 13. This acquisition seems to be causing concerns in Spain.
The Spanish real estate market remains an El Dorado for foreign investors. According to the latest data, they acquired 15% of the homes sold in the last quarter, one point more than ten years ago. Among them are many Moroccans.
The Civil Guard intercepted at the port of Tarifa 22 high-end vehicles stolen in Europe that were about to be shipped to Morocco. In total, nine people were arrested, seven of whom were charged.
The Spanish navy plans to deploy its L-61 Juan Carlos I aircraft carrier, the largest warship built in Spain, to Melilla on October 6. A way to reaffirm its sovereignty over this territory claimed by Morocco.
The torrential rains that have hit several regions of Morocco in recent weeks are worrying Spanish farmers, who are calling on the government and the European Commission to take measures to avoid the worst.
The President of the High Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA), Lorenzo del Río, assures that there has been no reduction in police pressure in Campo de Gibraltar, in the province of Cádiz, a heavily used route by hashish traffickers from Morocco, after the dismantling of the elite unit of the Civil Guard OCON-Sur.
The trial of the 26 members of the drug trafficking network led by Abdellah El Haj Sadek Membri, alias the "Messi of hashish", opened this Monday, September 23, before the court in Cádiz in Algeciras. The latter, under an international arrest warrant issued by Spain, would still be a fugitive in Morocco.