CALL OUT - Urgent need of funds in order to support the wounded and
those
being deported after this mornings police raids in Gurugu and Nador
+++ Please spread!! +++
After this mornings (10.02.15) strike on the outer european border fence
of the spanish enclave Melilla (during which 36 people sucessfully
managed
to enter european territory while around 20 were illegally pushed back
through the doors within the fence and handed over to the moroccan
auxiliary forces), we recieved news from the migrant camp Gurugu,
located
in the hills near Beni Enzar, the moroccan border city of Melilla, that
a
giant police raid in the early morning hours has left most of the camp
burnt down to the ground with hundreds of people arrested and at
imminent
risk of being deported to their home countries.
All this is taking place only one day after the Moroccan home office and
the ministry of immigration have announced the complete evacuation of
the
migrant camps located outside the spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla as
part of a new partnership agreement between Morocco and the European
Union.
According to Caminando Fronteras and other sources around 600 people
were
arrested and taken to a field by Kariat Arkmane, around 20km outside of
Nador. From there we have heard that people are being kept surrounded by
police. Their fingerprints and photos are being taken in order to
initiate
the deportation process. Apparently the moroccan minister has already
orderd the diplomats of different embassies to a meeting in order to ask
“laisse-passes“, and deport them to their countries. Other sources state
the deportations of those arrested to the desert near the Algerian
Border
in southern Morocco. Events such as the mass deportations to the
Algerian-Moroccan desert of 2005 remind us of how lethal these practices
are. Among thos arrested in this moment there are many severely injured
and in bad condition.
Financial support is urgently needed in order to pay for transport costs
and medicine of those wounded as well as rebuilding what has been
destroyed, blankets, shelters etc.
The fact that this violent attack against migrants on their way to
Europe
is taking place only 4 days after the one year anniversary of the
Tarajal
Tragedy, during which the spanish Guardia Civil killed at least 15
people
trying to swim into Ceuta, only prooves that the violence and the
killing
at the outer european border continues. Morocco is left to do the dirty
work Spain and the European Union pays them to do: keep people from
entering fortress Europe by all means.
STOP THE VIOLENCE AT THE BORDERS!
SOLIDARITY WITH THE MIGRANTS OF GURUGU AND WHEREVER
FUCK FORTRESS EUROPE
for donations please write to the following address:
nobordersmorocco@riseup.net
thanks and greetings!
nobordersmorocco
More information:
http://periodismohumano.com/migracion/marruecos-arrasa-los-campamentos-del-monte-gurugu-y-se-lleva-a-cientos-de-inmigrantes-con-destino-desconocido.html
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/Marruecos-advertencia-empezado-desmantelar-campamentos_0_355215220.html
http://www.abc.es/espana/20150209/abci-rabat-ceuta-melilla-201502092101.html
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