the Ministry of The Interior, led in features by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has been awarded a Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Guardia Civil the Director-General of the Moroccan Police, Abdellatif Hammouchi, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Gendarmerie of morocco, Mohammed Haramou.
So what was agreed last Friday by the Council of Ministers at the proposal of the holder of Interior, which considered it appropriate to grant this distinction, the maximum in the Order of Merit of the Guardia Civil, to these two commanders moroccan.
it is Not uncommon after complicated past summer on the borders with Morocco, the minister highlighted the good relations with the neighbouring country in recent days. In fact, at the beginning of the month of September, Grande-Marlaska attributed the decline of the boats to work a "serious and coordinated" between the two countries.
The official data of the Interior indicate that, between 1 January and 1 September have arrived in Spain by sea, 15.683 people in an irregular manner: that is to say, a 45.2 per cent less than last year in the same period. At the same time, on earth, have managed to penetrate in Ceuta and Melilla illegally 3.624 immigrants, 20.8 per cent less than the exercise precente on the same days.
counter-terrorismAs explained by the Ministry to ABC, the distinctions have nothing to do with the task of the kingdom alawite in the area of migration and in both cases extol the collaboration between the Civil Guard and the two bodies in the fight against terrorism, organized crime and security issues affecting both countries.
Hammouchi, head of the moroccan Police, it is considered as one of the greatest experts in the fight against jihadism, both in Morocco and beyond its borders, as set out Interior, your distinction responds to the intense collaboration with the Civil Guard. Haramou, meanwhile, has contributed, according to the proposal, Grande-Marlaska raised to the Council of Ministers, to "update" the organization in the moroccan Gendarmerie to improve its effectiveness, as well as to maintain the "strategic relationship" between Spain and Morocco.
Also in the area of migrationofficial Sources from the Armed Institute, however, delves into the reasons and emphasise that both awards are due to close collaboration between these institutions at a general level and in all areas, that is to say, also in the field of migration.
hue is not lower because, in part, to the work of the moroccan forces, the migratory pressure this summer in the Spanish borders, as recognized by the own Grande-Marlaska, and are supported by the statistics, it has been much less than last year.
A petition oldThis wink of the Government of Morocco is in contrast with the claims constants of the agents deployed in the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, where the Interior is intended to check out the concertinas . Every time you have to cope with a break mass, these guards ask the Ministry more means to detect and contain immigrants.
At the end of August, around 150 assailants vandalized a few dependencies from the Armed Institute at the fence of Ceuta and injured eleven officers of the Guardia Civil, against those who employed a large dose of violence.
Date Of Update: 24 September 2019, 04:01
