When
the sub-Saharan migrants reach Morocco through Algeria, their first
stop is either La Fac or the mountains near Oujda; here they remain
until they can put together enough money (chiefly via begging) to travel
the 150 kilometers that separate them from Nador, a Moroccan city on
the border with Melilla. Once they are there, if they are unable to
reach Spanish territory over the fence or via the sea route, and end up
getting arrested, Moroccan authorities take them straight back to the
border with Algeria. This border crossing is closed, but Moroccan police
officers get the migrants off the buses and instruct them to keep
walking until they reach the neighboring country.
" Allez, allez! [Come on, come on!]," they scream at us, explains a Senegalese man at La Fac.
"Sometimes
they shove us along. As soon as they leave, we turn around and walk
right back to Oujda. It takes several hours and we have to keep hiding
from the police, but if they leave us at the border at night, by
daybreak we are back in Oujda again."
This is the deportation procedure that Gadem association describes as illegal.
This
newspaper tried unsuccessfully to reach Morocco's Interior Ministry for
its side of the story. On Friday a ministry spokesman agreed to speak
on the phone, and was sent a list of questions via email regarding the
origin of the migrants' wounds, the medical assistance they have access
to and whether they have the right to any kind of legal counsel. There
was no reply, and the spokesman would not take any further phone calls,
despite repeated attempts.
The
immigrants' version of events is that they are being beaten for trying
to reach Spain; the Moroccan police are allegedly trying to prevent them
from jumping the fence into Melilla and close a route whose final
destination is not Morocco. They also say they are being treated in a
way that illegal immigrants would never be treated in Spain.
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Morocco can be acting as an Iv-Oy agent of Biv Europe, the migrants are like R prey and this Oy-R deportation is usually conducted deceptively and secretively.
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