{
  "id": 345154,
  "title": "Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun: “I don’t understand why tens of thousands of young people were allowed to cross into Ceuta. We have the most powerful police force in the Maghreb.”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/el-escritor-marroqui-tahar-ben-jelloun-no-entiendo-por-que-se-dejo",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-09T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/espana/2026-08-09/el-escritor-marroqui-tahar-ben-jelloun-no-entiendo-por-que-se-dejo-pasar-a-decenas-de-miles-de-jovenes-hacia-ceuta-tenemos-la-policia-mas-potente-del-magreb.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "When he left the reception of the Throne Festival at the royal residence in M'diq (Rincón del Medik, in the era of the Spanish Protectorate) he felt that his country was being emptied. Thousands of young people walked in the darkness on the night of July 30 from nearby Tetouan towards the border of Ceuta, just 30 kilometers to the north. Tahar Ben Jelloun (Fez, 81 years old), the most recognized Moroccan writer, thinks that the Mediterranean is no longer the calm sea —the white sea, as it is called in Arabic—, but a sea stained by the blood of clandestine immigration.",
  "summary": "El novelista más reconocido de Marruecos cree que la Italia de Meloni y otros países quieren castigar a España de forma histérica",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}