Morocco: a deliberate plot behind the storming of the "Melilla Fence" (video)

Moroccan government spokesman, Mustapha Baitas, said that "the events that took place in Melilla were the result of a well-thought-out plan," noting that the migrants adopted methods that defraud the public forces.

Baitas, who was speaking today, Thursday, July 07, 2022, during a press conference after the end of the government council's work, added that "the available data indicate that this process was the product of a premeditated plan, in a deliberate manner and outside the usual methods adopted by immigrants."

He pointed out that "in proportion to the humanitarian logic and the human rights dimension on which the governance of migration in Morocco is based, the National Council for Human Rights took the initiative to dispatch a delegation from the Council to carry out an exploratory mission to the city of Nador and its surroundings to find out the truth of what happened."

On June 24, hundreds of illegal immigrants stormed the security fence separating Beni Ansar and occupied Melilla.

The aforementioned events left 23 people dead and 76 injured among irregular migrants, and 140 wounded in the ranks of the Moroccan public forces.

Investigations conducted by the Moroccan judicial police revealed that some candidates for illegal immigration infiltrated the national territory after a long journey that led them from the borders of their homeland, Sudan, with the State of Libya, taking advantage of the political situation in this country and the weak control across the border. In many cities, after they paid varying amounts of money to the head of the network residing in Algeria, Omar, while others set out from Sudan towards Chad, then Niger and Mali to reach Algeria and then go directly to the Algerian-Moroccan border, especially the Zwaya area in the city of Maghnia, near the border port Ras Asfour in the city of Oujda. They are captured by one of the networks that are active in the field of illegal immigration and sheltered in a farm until they are helped to infiltrate into Morocco.

 Investigations also revealed that the aforementioned migrants set up a camp in one of the forests near the city of Nador, headed by a Sudanese citizen, where they received training in the use of knives and confronting the authorities.

Moroccan authorities have arrested 64 illegal immigrants who are currently being tried in Nador.

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