The Moroccan Police has foiled an illegal immigration attempt in the north-eastern city of Nador and arrested 25 Sub-Saharan African migrants.
The Police, in a statement said during an operation, a person suspected of organising illegal immigration wanted by Police was also arrested. It added that the search also led to the seizure of vests and inner tubes intended to be used in illegal immigration.
On Monday, seven sub-Saharan African migrants drowned after a boat accident off Morocco’s coast, and 70 others were rescued by a coast guard of the Moroccan Royal Navy.
Morocco has become a hub for African migrants seeking to reach Europe. Thousands of migrants try to flee poverty and unrest in Africa each year through Morocco to Europe, either by land or by sea.
A report by the Spanish Interior Ministry on illegal immigration in 2019 said a total of nineteen-thousand-six-hundred-and-four migrants had illegally reached the Spanish coasts as of October 14th, against forty-three-thousand-four-hundred-and-sixty-seven migrants during the same period in 2018 which witnessed a drop of fifty-four-point-nine percent.
