Held this weekend in a bunker at the Valencia port in Spain, three trucks coming from Morocco and carrying fertilizers for a company called Silla will finally be able to deliver their goods, said Thursday the Spanish daily newspaper Levante. On Sunday, the Nuclear Security Center (CSN) decided to isolate the trucks after discovering that the loads they carried were radioactive. However, after that the center authorized the trucks to market their loads. Indeed, the Spanish authorities stated
Residents of Hernani, a town and municipality located in the province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain rallied on Sunday, 4th of March, to denounce the act of vandalizing a mosque, said Europa Press. Racist and xenophobic messages were found Saturday on the city’s mosque, according to the Islamic Federation of the Basque Country, reported El Diario newspaper. In fact, someone wrote «Get out Arabs» on the mosque’s gate next to a tag in the form of a target. The
A young man was assaulted by an urban guard officer in a bar in Lleida (a city in Catalonia), Wednesday. The images of this attack quickly went viral on the internet during the weekend. The Moroccan consulate in Girona eventually intervened by appointing a lawyer to «defend the young man», said EFE news agency. The consulate of Girona (the closest to the Catalan city) asked the mayor of Lérida for explanations as he is a «chief of the police and local
In Spain, senates from the People’s Party have blocked the adoption of two bills resolutely anti-Moroccan.
MEPs, Lidia Senra and Estefania Torres, from the Confederation Group of the European United Left and the Podemos respectively, urged on Thursday the European Union to exclude the Western Sahara waters from its fisheries agreement concluded with Morocco and which is expected to expire on the 14th of July 2018, reports EFE. «The EU must exclude Western Sahara from its next agreement with Morocco», demanded Estefania Torres. The MEP also called the European Union to sign an agreement
The Spanish police have expelled a Moroccan national to his country of origin, because of his alleged activities linked to ISIS, EFE reported Wednesday. The 43-year-old man was arrested on January the 30th in Terrasa (Barcelona) and released later. Police sources told the Spanish news agency that the suspect was arrested again on Monday, and was transferred to Madrid and sent back to Melilla by plane. The Moroccan national had all his papers in Spain, but his deportation was decided for
The situation of minor migrants in Melilla is worrying according to the United Nations. The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which monitors and reports on implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by governments that ratify the Convention, urged Spain to reform the protocol on unaccompanied foreign minors, said the Spanish radio Cadena Ser. The UN committee also called the Iberian country to adopt the necessary measure which
The CJEU’s ruling, issued on the 27th of February, will definitely impact the fisheries sector in Spain. And while in Andalusia fishermen want to be cautious, the situation is complicated in the Canary Island and Galicia. They both fish in the Sahara waters.
A Moroccan national was killed Monday in Oviedo (northern Spain) after falling off a building, said a source from the consulate general of Morocco in Bilbao. The 45-year-old man fell from a window in a hotel in the center of Oviedo for reasons that remain so far unknown, said the same source. The local police had to temporarily interrupt traffic on the street next to the hotel because of the man's body lying on the road. An investigation has been launched to determine the causes and
Once again, Spanish associations offer Aminatou Haidar the opportunity to leave Laayoune and meet international media. She traveled to Seville on Saturday to take part in a tribute ceremony to honor a Spanish national, known for his support for the Polisario Front. The event organizer is the Seville regional branch of the «association in support of the Sahrawi people». The latter is engaged in promoting the Polisario politics in Europe. For the record, in June 2017 the same