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Morocco-Spain Hashish Trade: Billions in Profits as Prices Soar Across Borders
The hashish trade between Morocco and Spain generates billions of euros per year. The price of a kilo in Morocco doubles or even triples once it reaches Spain.
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Violent Street Brawl in Valencia Leads to Arrest of 6 North African Men
A violent brawl between Moroccans and Algerians occurred on Thursday on Peris i Valero Avenue in Valencia, leading to the arrest of six people.
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Storm Halts Ferry Services Between Spain and Morocco, Disrupting Travel
The storm currently hitting a large part of southern Spain, including the Algeciras and Tarifa regions, has prompted the authorities to suspend links with Morocco.
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Morocco's Agricultural Boom: Spanish Investors Fuel Desert Greenhouse Expansion
After signing the free trade agreement with the United States in 2004-2005, Morocco attracted foreign investors to exploit part of its agricultural land. A windfall seized by many Spanish companies, thus contributing to the development of the primary sector of the kingdom.
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Dutch-Moroccan Drug Cartel Suspected in Attack on Spanish Far-Right Politician
The Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Netherlands and Belgium, would be behind the assassination attempt targeting the 78-year-old Spanish politician, Alejo Vidal Quadras.
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Is Spain fed by Morocco?
Spain will become more dependent on Morocco to feed its population within a decade, warned SOS Rural, highlighting the perverse effects of the drought on the Spanish agricultural sector and massive imports of Moroccan fruits and vegetables.
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Polisario Front Threatens Legal Action Over Spanish Hotel in Disputed Western Sahara
The Polisario Front plans to take legal action against the Spanish group Senator Hotels & Resorts, which has announced the upcoming opening of a hotel in the city of Dakhla , in the Moroccan Sahara.
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Moroccan Cross-Border Workers Seek Social Security Refunds from Spain
Moroccan cross-border workers, mainly domestic workers, who traveled daily from Nador to Melilla before the borders were closed, are still unemployed. They are demanding the reimbursement of their social security contributions in Spain.
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Asylum Seekers Overwhelm Madrid Airport as Migrants Exploit Layover Loophole
Sub-Saharan and Moroccan migrants have found a new modus operandi. They board flights at Casablanca airport bound for Latin American countries, then take advantage of the stopover at Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport to apply for asylum. A situation that has led to overcrowding in the asylum centers at the Spanish airport.
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Moroccan Woman Found Dead in Spain, Suspected Victim of Gender Violence
The lifeless body of Fatima, a 45-year-old Moroccan woman, was found on Sunday in a vehicle on a road in the Garganta del Ter region (Girona) in Spain. She would have been the victim of a sexist crime.
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Moroccan Migrant, 21, Dies in Tragic Border Tunnel Accident
Marouane Ettoujguani, a 21-year-old Moroccan, lost his life, crushed by a freight convoy, as he tried to illegally immigrate to France from Spain via the tunnel connecting the Spanish town of Portbou to Cerbère (France).
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Dangerous Fugitive 'El Pastilla' Captured in Germany After Multi-Country Manhunt
Actively sought since his escape from the Alcalá Meco prison in Madrid, Youssef Lehrech alias "El Pastilla", was arrested on Thursday near the Leipzig train station in Germany. The dangerous criminal, accused of two murders, had been located in Morocco and France.