About fifty migrants, among those who forced their way into Melilla, were sent back to Morocco. They will be immediately expelled to their countries of origin. According to NGOs, their expulsion is «illegal».
Rabat is intending to rely on «intermediaries» to negotiate the repatriation of around 200 Moroccan housewives and their children, held in Syria.
Moroccan women in Syria have been urging the authorities to be repatriated. Sources claim that the procedure was refused by the Kingdom, fearing that these mothers and their children could spread radical Islamist ideology.