Testimonies from the survivors and from different social Moroccan organizations confirm that the nights of the 28th and 29th of April, a boat with more than seventy people that tried to reach the Spanish coast was hit by security Moroccan forces. At least 36 people drown, babies included. A few months before a complaint for the death of a Senegalese citizen thrown to the sea by the civil guard had arrived. In the frame of the International Committee of the III WSFM (…)

In Morocco, the rights and dignity of men and women are scorned in the name of the protection of Europe’s borders

After raids and deportations on Dec 23, 25 and 29, 2006, call for solidarity with the deported migrants and with the local associations localeswhich try, in spite of their meagre means, to help them.

At dawn on 23 December 2006, between two and four hundred migrants were rounded up in several neighbourhoods in Rabat (Morocco), placed in minibuses and taken by force to the Algerian border. On 25 December, round-ups also took place in Nador (in the east of the country). Little over a year after the events in Ceuta and Melilla in autumn 2005, large-scale round-ups and deportations in the name of the protection of Europe borders are again on the agenda in a country where, on a daily basis, the rights of migrants and of people in need of international protection are scorned.

Interassociative opinion published in Libération on 12 octobre 2005 and in Le Soir on 13 octobre 2005

Having been engaged in a latent war against migrants for a number of years, the European Union has now passed the point of open war at its southern border. In just a few days, more than ten people have been shot to death while attempting to cross the Moroccan border with the Spanish territories of Ceuta and Mellila. Many others have been severely injured, and hundreds have been deported and abandoned with neither food nor water in the Sahara desert. In an attempt to contain the “invasion” of (…)