Spanish Mother Stranded in Morocco, Unable to Return with Children

Sukaina left her hometown of Ceuta with a Moroccan young man, now five years ago. The two lived together in Tangier where they had two boys: Hamza, 4 years old, and Aboubaqr, 8 months old. But the Moroccan did not formalize his relationship with Sukaina, let alone recognize the children, which makes it difficult to obtain travel documents for the latter. The young woman thus finds herself stuck in Morocco, unable to return to Spain with her two children.

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"I just want to go back to Spain with my children," Sukaina confides to El Faro de Ceuta, after having visited several Spanish consulates in Tangier and Casablanca. Without success. Her situation is worrying because for more than a year now, her companion, the Moroccan, has been reported missing, abandoning her with two children on her hands, without any means of subsistence. She currently lives with a friend and tries to make ends meet with the little money her family sends her from time to time.

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Some have suggested that Sukaina obtain Moroccan documents to return home, but she refuses this option. "I am Spanish, I do not want Moroccan documentation; I want to leave the country with my children and start over," said Sukaina, who could settle with her sons with one of her uncles who got a job in Ibiza.

The young woman is desperate, powerless in the face of this situation for which she seems to find no solutions. She is Spanish, the mother of two young boys who have not been recognized by their father whom she has not seen for more than a year and of whom she has no news. Under the law, the two children do not exist. She is devastated by this "real hell" that she has been living for several years, stressing that she was a victim of domestic violence from her ex-partner.