
Spain Warns Citizens to Exercise Caution When Traveling to Morocco
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has drawn up a list of recommendations for its nationals planning to visit Morocco.

The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has drawn up a list of recommendations for its nationals planning to visit Morocco.

The Spanish Civil Guard announced on Friday the dismantling, in coordination with the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) of Morocco, of a terrorist cell affiliated with Daesh. In total, nine people were arrested.

Suspected of having kidnapped and tortured a Moroccan in Malaga, two Frenchmen were arrested and then placed in pre-trial detention in Spain.

The Spanish Navy has deployed a patrol boat (the Vigía) and a contingent of the Legion in Melilla to carry out surveillance and deterrence missions there.

The Court of First Instance of San Clemente (Cuenca) has ordered the provisional detention without bail of the Moroccan accused of the murder of his ex-wife and his two children in Las Pedroñeras .

The European Union’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has issued a new alert regarding a batch of contaminated squid exported to Spain from Morocco.

Morocco does not currently represent a threat to Spain, despite its insistent claims on Ceuta and Melilla, said General Loreto Gutiérrez Hurtado, director of the National Security Department (DSN), on Monday.

Morocco and Spain reactivated the 40-year-old project of the tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar in February 2023. The realization of this mega project should cost 6 billion euros.

The Civil Guard found the remains of the bodies of a woman of Moroccan origin and her two minor children in a house in Las Pedroñeras in Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, on Saturday.

Morocco would be a threat to Spain’s security due to its persistent claims on Ceuta, Melilla, and the Spanish islands and rocks. But an open armed conflict between the two countries is not foreseeable, say some analysts.

Media outlets including Bladi.net have this week mentioned the existence of a love relationship between Lola Índigo and PSG Moroccan defender Achraf Hakimi . The Andalusian singer wanted to set the record straight.

Ahmed Younoussi arrived in Spain at the age of 9, hidden under a truck. Ironically, the Moroccan plays that boy he was in a short film directed by Jean Gautier.