AMDM criticizes Morocco and the European Union over their handling of the migration crisis.
On Friday, the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) raised the death toll to 141 in the recent migrant surges recorded along Morocco’s borders with the Spanish autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
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The AMDH announced the figure during a news conference held in Rabat alongside the European Coordination for Human Rights in Morocco (CEDHM).
AMDH President Souad Brahma said Moroccan authorities had placed 111 people in pretrial detention for their alleged involvement in the events, which were triggered by the attempted mass entry into Ceuta and Melilla by tens of thousands of migrants, most of them Moroccans.
She said 51 people were arrested in Tetouan, located 45 kilometers south of Ceuta, including five minors. In Nador, near Melilla, another 52 people were arrested, including 18 minors.
Regarding the deaths on Moroccan territory, in addition to the 75 bodies recovered by Spain, AMDH President in Tetouan Achraf Mimoune said the city’s morgue contains 21 bodies: 11 Moroccans and 10 foreign nationals.
The official death toll of 11, announced last Sunday by Morocco’s Interior Ministry, “is not up to date,” he said and stressed that his organization is trying to verify additional information related to the Tangier morgue, where “there could be another 17 bodies.”
The hysteria over the so-called “invasion” of Spain says far more about Europe’s far right than it does about what actually happened in Ceuta.
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Mimoune lamented that during the return of migrants, there was no official Moroccan institution to receive them, provide them with medical care, guide them or contact the families of those who disappeared.
“We remained in contact with those families, who could not find any official responsible for providing them with information,” he said, adding that around 3,500 young people still remain in the forests and in various neighborhoods of Ceuta. “They are in an inhumane situation and their lives are in danger,” he said.
The AMDH held its news conference while calls continue to circulate on social media to organize a new migrant surge on Aug. 15. Meanwhile, authorities continue intercepting young people attempting to reach the outskirts of Ceuta and Melilla.
Early Thursday, news agency EFE witnessed in Ksar el-Kebir, 180 kilometers south of Ceuta, the interception by Morocco’s Royal Gendarmerie of seven minors from Casablanca and Rabat who were trying to reach the Spanish autonomous city.
The AMDH president criticized Morocco’s role as “Europe’s gendarme” and denounced the country’s attempt to address the migration phenomenon exclusively from a security perspective.
Brahma called for an independent and transparent investigation to determine responsibility for what happened. She also criticized the European Union for its indifference toward violations of the rights of migrants committed by Moroccan authorities.
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Source: EFE
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