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These people were preparing to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla when they were captured by the Moroccan army.
Published on January 1, 2024 6:39 p.m. Updated on January 1, 2024 6:59 p.m
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A Moroccan border guard near Nador (Morocco), June 26, 2022. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
Moroccan army units intercepted more than a thousand migrants in the north of the kingdom on New Year's Eve as they prepared to reach the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, according to an official press release.
According to the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), a total of 1,110 migrants were arrested in the cities of Nador, M'diq and Fnideq during several operations by the Moroccan army and law enforcement authorities on the night of Sunday to Monday.
The army said the 175 migrants arrested in Nador, a border town with Melilla, were from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen, without mentioning the nationality of the 935 others. The Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta, located on the northern coast of Morocco, are the European Union's only land borders on the African continent and are regularly victims of clandestine entry attempts.
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