Rejects rumours of a new wave of migrants
September 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights-Nador has denounced the increased presence of security forces on the borders between Morocco and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla and has denounced the lack of alternatives for the local population who make a living from border trade.
“The unprecedented and exceptional militarisation of the municipalities of Bani Ansar and Al Fennidq, on the border with the two occupied cities of Melilla and Ceuta, based on rumours about mass migration of young Moroccans, is a lie,” the NGO said in a message posted on its Facebook account.
The group has stressed that “there is no increase in the presence of sub-Saharan African immigrants,” and therefore considers that “all protection of this border (…) is no longer justified.”
He thus regrets the “large presence of public forces” in these border areas where there has been “a suffocating economic and social crisis since the closure of the borders” without the authorities offering any alternative for the “thousands of people who have been living off of border trade.”
“Instead of the promised economic and social alternative that residents expected after the border closures, they will only see more military and security,” the group lamented.
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