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Spanish security forces have arrested four Moroccan nationals in the town of Tarifa, in Cádiz, for stealing equipment of Sky News television. The four suspects, media reports say, were arrested at the port of the Spanish city on Wednesday by La Guardia Civil. They were traveling aboard a bus with a shipment that they […]
Spanish police announced Wednesday the arrest of a 30-year old Moroccan national in Coloma de Gramenet, near Barcelona. The suspect was under an international arrest warrant issued by Moroccan authorities last September, Moroccan news agency MAP reported, quoting a statement of the Spanish police. The man is suspected of being involved in a “terrorist organization” […]
Morocco and Spain managed in recent years to upgrade their bilateral relations into a comprehensive strategic partnership that covers security and migration cooperation along with economic and cultural ones. “Spain is Morocco’s first trading partner as the two countries are bound by exemplary cooperation,” the Moroccan and Spanish foreign ministries said in a joint statement […]
Spanish security forces have said they busted four networks of 16 Moroccan nationals suspected of indulging in the trafficking of minors from Morocco to the EU country for fees ranging between €600 and €800. The suspects who live in the cities of Seville and Cádiz used to hold the kids in a center on the […]
Police agents at Tanger-Med Port foiled on Saturday an ecstasy trafficking operation. Policemen seized a total of 568,000 ecstasy pills that were aboard an international cargo truck registered in Morocco and coming from the port of Algeciras, Spain, national police said in a statement. The truck’s driver and his assistant, aged 48 and 26, respectively, […]
Security authorities in the Dominican Republic have deported a French national, boss of a network accused of laundering money coming from drug trafficking activities between Spain and Morocco. The French, Michel Pierre Vincent Loubet, had been arrested last week alongside four other Spanish nationals in the northern part of the Central American country. The operation […]
Spanish security forces have dismantled a network of drug dealers made of 57 people of various nationalities including Moroccans. Some 200 members of Guardia Civil had been deployed across the south of the European country to crack down on Hashish trafficking, online media Le360.ma reports. The operation launched in August last year targeted Malaga, Grenada […]
French judicial authorities announced this Monday that security services had seized on Friday 11 tons of cannabis in the region of Besancon. The record-setting dismantling operation was possible thanks to massive support from Moroccan and Spanish investigation teams. France, Morocco, and Spain have cooperated on various criminal investigations, but the latest is the biggest operation […]
The number of migrants reaching Spain dropped in the last three months thanks to Morocco’s crackdown on migrant trafficking networks, said migration and border control director at Morocco’s Interior Ministry Khalid Zerouali. Some 25,000 migration attempts were foiled between January 1 and May, Zerouali told Reuters in an interview. He denied claims in Spanish media […]
Spanish Minister of Defense Margarita Robles, on Wednesday, welcomed the cooperation existing between Spain and Morocco in fighting the networks of migrants smuggling operating in the Strait of Gibraltar. “We have full confidence in the collaboration with Morocco” in the field of the fight against irregular immigration, she told the press on the sidelines of […]