Spain has just offered the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie 200 night vision goggles to strengthen the fight against illegal immigration and drug trafficking in the Strait of Gibraltar.
The surprise landing of two flights destined for Germany from Morocco and Namibia at Palma de Mallorca airport (Spain) put the National Police and the Civil Guard on alert. They feared a repeat of what happened on November 5, 2021 at Palma Son Sant Joan airport, where Moroccan migrants fled after the emergency landing of an Air Arabia Morocco plane.
After the batches of Moroccan strawberries contaminated with hepatitis A, the Spanish authorities have just issued a new health alert concerning a batch of melons from Morocco containing a high level of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide banned in the EU since 2019.
In Catalonia, senior Moroccan officials were suspected of links with the separatist movement. As part of the investigation opened to confirm or refute these suspicions, the Moroccan consul in Barcelona, Ghoulam Maichane, had been spied on.
The Civil Guard has dismantled a criminal network specialized in the sale of vehicles imported from Morocco that it passes off as vehicles from European Union countries. In total, 17 people have been arrested.
Spain has a more powerful naval fleet than Morocco, according to the latest ranking by Global Firepower.
The naval exercises conducted by Morocco off the Canary Islands are taking place in "well-defined and very remote areas from Spanish waters," assured the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, after the concerns expressed by the government of the archipelago.
The hashish trafficking networks from Morocco to Spain via the Strait of Gibraltar now transport drugs not only by sea, but also by air using light aircraft or helicopters.
The Moroccan army would have installed on March 10 on the border with Melilla (Beni Ensar), more precisely in the "no man’s land", a giant antenna that would be intended for espionage.
While she has spent 21 years in Spain, has been a victim of domestic violence, has Spanish children and has been remarried to a Spaniard for a few years, a 41-year-old Moroccan woman is facing the enormous difficulty of obtaining Spanish nationality.
A Moroccan minor is among the four individuals who died on Thursday, swept away by the sea on the northwest and northeast coasts of Spain, battered by violent winds and waves several meters high.
Migrant trafficking networks transport 20 migrants in inflatable boats from Morocco to the Costa del Sol in just half an hour and for large sums that can reach up to 20,000 euros per person.