Spanish TV Crew Expelled from Morocco While Investigating Deadly Workshop Flood

"I wanted to clarify the news that has been circulating this afternoon, because we were not arrested," Gonzo rectified at the outset. "We were having tea on a terrace when plainclothes police officers approached us and asked to see our papers and what the purpose of our presence was," the presenter of Salvados told 20minutos.

"We told them that we had come to discuss and meet the families of the 28 people who died in a textile workshop in February in Tangier," adds Gonzo, who specifies that the team was collecting information on the subject and was not yet at the filming stage. "As we always do before a report, we go talk to people to understand the story and see if there are really facts that allow us to do a report," the journalist stressed.

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Except that the Spanish journalists did not have the necessary authorizations, even though they had not come to record the show. "The police informed us that as journalists, even if it’s just to talk to people, we needed these authorizations," Gonzo also said. This is how the agents took the Spanish team from the terrace directly to the Tangier airport so that they could board the next flight, he concluded.