The increase in thefts on the AP-7 highway in Spain in recent months has led the Mossos d’Esquadra to carry out awareness-raising panels for travelers, particularly Moroccans living abroad (MREs).
Spain is considering issuing an international arrest warrant against the four occupants of the Moroccan drug boat that collided with a Civil Guard patrol boat on February 9, killing two agents of the Guardia Civil in the town of Barbate in Cadiz.
The Marhaba Operation marking the return of Moroccans from Europe to Morocco in the summer will end on September 15. Since its start on June 13, more than 3.2 million MREs and nearly 800,000 vehicles have traveled between Spain and Morocco, already exceeding the 2023 figures.
The construction by Navantia of the patrol vessel for the benefit of the Royal Moroccan Navy is progressing. The Spanish shipbuilder carried out the keel laying on its San Fernando site on the high-altitude vessel.
A document containing confidential information about the Spanish army and in particular the units deployed in the territories claimed by Morocco has leaked on the Internet before being removed.
The Spanish authorities have apprehended an individual actively sought by the Belgian justice system. This fugitive, of Moroccan origin, is suspected of having participated in a kidnapping in Antwerp, and was arrested on August 28th at the port of Almería.
The French Carrefour store in Ceuta has started to allow the payment of its products in Moroccan dirhams. A first in the country to try to attract Moroccan customers.
For a few weeks now, Morocco has been avoiding collaborating with Spain in the context of rescue missions off the Canary Islands and near the waters of the Sahara.
A chase on the Guadalquivir River between a drug boat from Morocco and a Civil Guard patrol boat resulted in the death of one of the occupants of the first boat. Four other people were injured in the operation, which led to the seizure of 121 bales of hashish.
The body of a young man of Moroccan origin was found on Sunday in Lake La Cuerda del Pozo in Spain. The remains have been transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for the purposes of the autopsy.
Maria Agustí, a teacher in Llria in Valencia, is eight months pregnant. Her Moroccan partner, Rachid Dahdahi, unfortunately will not be able to attend the birth in Spain because he has failed to get a visa appointment at the Spanish consulate in Casablanca where he resides.
Hamza El Hatmi and Abdessamad Fiach, the two young Moroccan migrants who had saved a 74-year-old Spaniard from drowning in the Serós canal in Lleida (Catalonia) in April 2023, have just obtained Spanish nationality by naturalization.