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.