Morocco prosecutes 77 people for organizing irregular crossings in Ceuta and Melilla
The judiciary imputes crimes related to the clandestine exit from the country, transportation of passengers without a license or attacks on members of the security forces.
Morocco's justice system has set in motion the procedural machinery to prosecute dozens of people involved in the exodus of thousands of irregular young migrants to Ceuta and, to a much lesser extent, Melilla. The Tetouan prosecutor's office has charged 25 people with crimes related to the organisation of irregular crossings, attacks on members of the security forces or the transportation of passengers without a licence in connection with the arrival last Thursday and Friday of more than 70,000 clandestine migrants from Morocco to the autonomous city of Ceuta.
In turn, courts in Nador, also on the north coast of the Maghrebi country, have charged another 52 people with attempting to storm Melilla.
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