These people were preparing to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla when they were arrested by the Moroccan army.
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Units of the Moroccan army intercepted more than a thousand migrants in the north of the kingdom on New Year’s Eve as they were preparing to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, during different operations, according to an official press release.
A total of 1,110 migrants were arrested overnight from Sunday to Monday in the towns of Nador, M’diq and Fnideq during several operations by the Moroccan army and law enforcement, according to the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR).
The army specified that the 175 migrants apprehended in Nador, a border town with Melilla, are from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen, without giving the nationalities of the 935 others. Located on the northern coast of Morocco, the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta are the only land borders of the European Union on the African continent and are regularly the subject of clandestine entry attempts.
