After almost a month of escaping his prison cell in Spain, Moroccan Yousef Mohamed Lehrech, known as El Pastilla, was arrested in Leipzig, Germany, Spanish police say.
At the beginning of 1937, France knew about German ambitions in Morocco, and moved diplomatically to prevent Berlin from sending 3,000 soldiers to Ceuta, and asked Britain to support it militarily, in the face of Germany, supported by Spain and Italy.
In 1943, a British bank in Tangier spotted, for the first time, samples of counterfeits, putting an end to the mass forgery of Sterling currency. The operation was initiated by Nazi Germany to destroy the British economy during World War II.
As an answer to the proliferation of indexes and rankings and their reuse for political purposes, the think tank German Institute for International and Security Affairs has decided to look at the Maghreb in order to determine whether the rankings are true to reality.