European Union leaders will boost funds granted to Morocco and Spain to help deal with migration flows, says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday quoted by Reuters. According to the newly appointed PM Rabat and Madrid will benefit from this decision as more migrants are opting for the route between the two countries to enter Europe. «There is a commitment to dispense more funds to the government of Spain and Morocco», said Sanchez in a televised news conference held
Moroccan Judoka Imad Bassou won, Wednesday, the bronze medal in the 18th Mediterranean Games, earning Morocco its fourth medal in this competition, which takes place in Tarragona (Spain) from June 22, to July 1. Bassou lost the semi-finals (60-66 Kg) against the Italian Manuel Lombardo with a score of 100-10 points. This is Morocco's fourth medal, after the gold and silver ones won by Karateka Ameknassi and Sayah, as well as another bronze earned by fencer Elkord. The Mediterranean Games are
While several other Moroccan women in Huleva denounce abuses, Employment and Vocational Training Minister Mohamed Yatim hails the sending program. The latter allows several Moroccan women to work in Spain’s strawberry fields through seasonal contracts.
Two Spanish Ministers will visit Morocco on Thursday 28th of June. Foreign minister Josep Borrel is expected to meet his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita on the same day while Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s Interior minister, is set to meet Abdelouafi Laftit. The two men will discuss matters related to migration and the fight against terrorism. Spain’s former Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido had announced at the end of April, during a meeting he held with
Sophia Loesch, a 28-year-old German student, who went missing for more than a week, was found dead in Spain, reports TPI News. Investigators believe that a 41-year-old Moroccan suspect raped her and killed her. Identified on Saturday, June the 23rd, the body of the missing woman was discovered Friday in Asparrena, a municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. She had to go to Bavaria where her friends were waiting for her. The suspect, who was
A Moroccan national, who entered the Canary Islands illegally, was arrested on the 19th of June for allegedly inciting hatred against Jews on social media, reports Europa Press. The 32-year-old man is accused of spreading hate speech mainly on Facebook and Youtube targeting the Jewish community in Spain through messages and posts. According to the same source, the suspect, who has not been tried yet, had been under investigation since 2017.
For the president of strawberry producer FreshHuelva, reports on alleged sexual abuses in the fields are part of well-plotted campaign launched to affect the sector.
A forty-year-old Moroccan man was arrested in Spain for being allegedly involved in a German student’s disappearance, reports German online newspaper Die Freie Welt on Thursday. «Investigators had issued an arrest warrant against one of the suspects, a 40-year-old Moroccan national who was arrested in Spain», says the same source. The victim is an activist from Ambert, a city in southern Germany. She had left her house in Leipzig, last Thursday, to go see her family.
A Moroccan national who was arrested in Valencia a year ago for allegedly recruiting ISIS fighters and supporting the terrorist organization’s doctrine, was sentenced in Spain to six years in prison, says El Mundo. Abdellah L., 52, was found guilty of forming a local autonomous cell in Valencia to spread ISIS’ propaganda. He had created 13 different profiles on social media and was followed by 22,597 people. The investigation showed that the man, residing in Valencia, had
In May, several Moroccan women broke their silence, speaking out against alleged sexual and labor abuses in Huelva’ strawberry fields. Yabiladi was able to contact one of the Moroccan farm workers who were able to flee a farm in Southern Spain and lodge a complaint against her alleged aggressor.