Melilla’s minister of Social Welfare Daniel Ventura announced, Wednesday 12th of September, that 86 unaccompanied minor migrants from Morocco entered the autonomous city during the month of August, says Europa Press. The largest group to arrive in Melilla was composed of twenty people who managed to enter the city through land borders, said the Ministry of Public Security in a report is handed over to the Ministry of Social Affairs. The second largest group of minor migrants
Spain is planning to bid for the 2030 World Cup, Spanish radio station Cadena Ser said on Wednesday. The decision was taken during a meeting held by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the President of the Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales and FIFA president Gianni Infantino. According to Spanish media, the country is considering two options for its 2030 World Cup bid : A single bid with Spain as the only nation to host the tournament and a joint one with the participation
Spanish police expelled a 39-year-old Moroccan man who served as an Imam in the Islamic community of La Rabita (province of Granada) for his extremist and violent messages. Police sources told EFE that the procedure took place Friday because of the Imam's activities, which were deemed «undermining to national security». As a member of the Islamic community of La Rabita, the man had always conveyed extremist messages, supporting the non-integration of Muslims in the Spanish society.
The Spanish police have recommended the expulsion of Moroccan Imam, Mohamed Attaouil, reports online newspaper El Nacional. Revealed by TV3, this exceptional measure might be implemented as the man in question «is considered as a threat to national security». According to El Confidencial, the police's report states that «Attaouil’s behavior is a real and sufficiently serious threat to national security». The Imam of the Salt mosque in Girona, is also accused of
The Spanish Civil Guard rescued Wednesday, 5th of September, a four-year-old migrant in the Cadiz Bay waters, who was with his two parents, reports El Ciudadano. The operation took place about 10 miles away from the Faro de Trafalgar, in the municipality of Barbate. The child and his parents were on a boat alongside 30 migrants, as it is shown in a video published by the same source. Officials noticed that the child was with the group. «They gave him a thermal blanket to surmount the
Several organizations, NGOs and activists will rallied in Spain to protest against the expulsion of 116 migrants, says El Faro de Ceuta. Rallies are expected to take place in twenty Spanish cities, including Barcelona, Algeciras, Madrid, Malga, Melilla, Seville and Zaragoza, to denounce the migration policy of Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Concentración en #Bilbao de @OEEbizkaia @sosracismobiz y Comunidad Africana contra las devoluciones express de migrantes y
Through a crowdfunding platform, Moroccan farm workers in Huelva have managed to reach their objective, by receiving €15,254 in 20 days, announced a Twitter account created to show support for these women on Wednesday. The campaign was created in August on GoFundMe by the Association of the Administration of Justice Users (Ausaj) to raise money for ten Moroccan farm workers in Huelva. These women have filed complaints in May, denouncing sexual and labor abuse. Their objective was to
Spain has announced that it is holding a meeting «next week» with the head of Morocco's Customs Administration to address the sensitive topic.
Morocco is an «essential» country for Spain in the area of migration control, Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said on Monday. «Morocco is a safe country, a country with which we are collaborating - in many areas - and for us, it is logically an essential country in terms of migration control,» Sanchez pointed out in an interview with Radio Cadena Ser. Spain, which is facing the aging of its population, is a country that needs a «legal and orderly»
Arrested in Spain, the 41-year-old Moroccan national, accused of allegedly killing Sophia Loesch was extradited to Germany. Suspected of killing the 28-year-old German student after picking her up, the driver has been locked up since Thursday in a prison in Upper Franconia, reports Wetterauer Zeitung. On June the 14th, the man was expected to drive the young woman to Bayern, where her parents live. She went missing for days, then her body was found in Spain and identified by the authorities