Hespress Incidents Photo: AFP Hespress from OujdaSaturday, January 20, 2024 – 10:32
The Algerian authorities are preparing to release ten Moroccans detained in its prisons, most of them irregular immigrants, and hand them over to the Moroccan authorities next week.
According to the data available to Hespress, those concerned will complete their various prison terms during the next few days, as the lawyer of one of those detained since last October confirmed to his family that he would be released in the next batch.
In a related context, human rights sources revealed to Hespress the possibility of handing over the body of a Moroccan immigrant who died during an attempt to migrate irregularly from a Moroccan beach, which was washed away by the sea on an Algerian beach.
It is noteworthy that the “Zog Bagal” border crossing, closed since 1994, was opened last Wednesday, exceptionally, for the purpose of the Algerian authorities handing over about 40 detainees in its prisons to their Moroccan counterparts.
The Algerian coast is one of the destinations for hundreds of young Moroccans wishing to immigrate to European lands, where they cross the Moroccan-Algerian border secretly, or via a flight from Casablanca to Algeria, or to Tunisia and then to Algeria, in light of the eastern neighbor closing its airspace in… The face of Moroccan aviation.
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