Eleven sub-Saharans were arrested on Friday night at the Beni Ensar border checkpoint trying to cross illegally into Melilla, the northern Moroccan city still occupied by Spain.
According to some witnesses, the migrants were crammed into a Mercedes car bearing a false number plate,and were arrested by Moroccan law agents who succeeded in stopping the car as it got stuck onn spike barriers. The people, including a woman, were transferred to relevant security authorities to probe into the incident.
The illegal migrants usually use northern Morocco to cross into Melilla or Sebta, another Moroccan town still under Spanish occupation, or directly sail on dinghies to the Spanish south-east coast.
Moroccan-Spanish joint patrol surveillance and the use of radar devices to track illegal migrants forced the latter to try to cross from Morocco to the Canary Islands, in the south. Recent trends show the Moroccan-Spanish cooperation is forcing the illegals use Mauritania as a transit to the Islands.
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