The campaign has already completed two weeks and its balance 200 arrests and identification. Moroccan police forces are blocking the movement of sub-Saharan migrant groups from the interior of Morocco to Melilla. They are part of the battered contingent that the gendarmerie expelled from the vicinity of Gurugú Mountain and deported them to the south of the country after the tragedy at the border fence on June 24.
In fact, some of the arrests, 54, took place last weekend on the slopes of that hill near Melilla, whose forests are a traditional sanctuary. Chadian, Malian, Nigerian or Sudanese immigrants Trying to reach European soil. On this mountain, Morocco collected the relics of mining companies to reopen the old iron mines of the Rif, which it exploited during the Spanish protectorate.
Police operations began 20 days ago when gendarmerie teams detected the return of large numbers of migrants deported in June to the north. Among them are not only veterans of attacks on fences; as well as new arrivals and an undetermined number of children. According to government sources in Madrid, Morocco informs its contacts in the Spanish Ministry of the Interior of the police coups.
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Raids are not only carried out in the Nador region, the city that touches Melilla in the southeast. The longest arrests were made on the 20th. on the agenda, 150 kilometers from the Spanish city. This 150 kilometer distance is the radius at which Moroccan gendarmes try to stop the advance of the migrants. Detainees – reporting to Spanish police sources – are often They are charged before the Moroccan prosecutor’s office illegal immigration with the use of force.
The activity of the Moroccan police is used by far-right activists in Melilla and Ceuta to spread the news of the alleged accumulation of thousands of immigrants preparing a new attack on the fence. The agitation is so intense that Arrived at the Congressional Home Affairs Committee Last Wednesday. At the disclosure session of the ministry’s budget, Vox blamed Rafael Pérez, Minister of State for SecurityAs long as Spain does not stop illegal immigration, it will donate 30m euros to Morocco for public safety.
The same sources stated that the Moroccan police sought the root of at least one of the raids. They searched a house they thought was the headquarters of an immigrant mafia in the Oujda raid, hundreds of metal hooks That the sub-Saharans use to scale the border fence.
The Spanish police sources observing these movements are unaware of the clashes between the immigrants and the gendarmes or the scenes of serious resistance to authority. According to the Nador prosecutor’s office, Rabat’s security forces are trying to reach the leadership of a Sudanese criminal organization. leader bossThe 35-year-old Malian settled in Algeria and was to lead the organization of the grand attempt to cross the border, which resulted in the crushing and drowning of at least 23 migrants in June.