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Rabat – Moroccan police have aborted an irregular migration attempt in Nador, northern Morocco, a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) announced today.
Judicial police in collaboration with services from the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) carried out the security operation on Sunday evening.
According to the statement, the migrants attempted to scale the iron fence between Nador and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
Police arrested several of the irregular migrants, including six Sudanese nationals and one man from Burkina Faso.
Police carried out the arrest operation “immediately” after the “candidates for irregular migration” arrived in Nador, equipped with iron tools designed to scale the fence at the Spain-Morocco border.
Nador police in collaboration with security services arrested in Oujda 24 irregular migrants of different nationalities, including Guinea and Chad.
Investigattion is ongoing to arrest other people possibly invovled with a human trafficking network.
Police will also investigate the owner of a local ironwork for his implication in the manufacturing of the climibing tools used in undocumented migration attempts.
Also targeted by the investigation is the owner of a house that shelters irregular migrants.
All the arrested people have been taken into custody as the police determine to investigate the proliferation of irregular migration operations in the region.
Since 2017, Morocco has prevented more than 14,000 unauthorized migration attempts, according to official data from the Moroccan government.
Morocco’s security services have also dismantled over 5,000 trafficking networks and rescued over 80,500 migrants at sea.
