Question 13349 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Joël Giraud draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to Morocco's management of migrants. Spain became the first gateway for illegal immigration into Europe this year, after Italian borders were closed under pressure from its interior minister. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 40,000 migrants have reached Spain since the beginning of the year 2018. In order to limit arrivals to Spain, Morocco is intensifying repression. More than 6,500 sub-Saharans have been pushed back since August 2018 to the south of the country. Abandoned at the gates of the desert, these candidates for exile do everything they can to return to the north of the country in order to try the “adventure” towards Europe. The kingdom says it wants to fight against “mafia networks of smugglers”, but associations denounce arbitrary arrests and abusive expulsions of migrants whose age nor their personal situation allows them to avoid expulsion. This is an unprecedented fight akin to commando operations carried out outside any legal framework. In mid-August 2018, two migrants died after jumping from the bus taking them away from Tangier. At the end of September 2018, they are candidates for migration who came under fire from the royal navy which said it was “forced” to fire on a zodiac. Results: one dead and three injured. Ignoring the commitments it made in 2013 regarding asylum and migration, Morocco, probably wishing to demonstrate its goodwill to the European Union, is trying to dissuade candidates for exile by intercepting them before they embark for Spain. For its part, the European Commission seems struggling to help Morocco in its management of migratory flows. Also, he asks him to kindly inform him of the intentions of the European Union in order to fight against this repression, the scope of which is contrary to republican values.

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