![]() The daily activities and movement of around 1,500 migrants gathered on heights in the camps of the Lakhmis Akdim and Bekoya woodlands were monitored by drones and deployed officers at the start of June, when there were daily attacks to move them on. The evidence suggests, then, that when Morocco plays its border guard role on the EU’s behalf, both the scale and seriousness of rights violations increase. ![]() In just 84 days there were 31 attacks, a figure that is not far off the total number of all attacks carried out in 20, and there were no collective crossing attempts at the border. Improved relations were followed by frequent attacks against makeshift shelters and camps in forests, and attempted border crossings decreased in April and May. This situation of few attacks and several attempted border crossings persisted while Spanish-Moroccan relations were ‘frozen’, but this changed in late March 2022, when the two countries signed a new security cooperation agreement and diplomatic relations thawed. There was also an increase in attempted border crossings at the fences in 2021, involving 1,050 people. In previous years, such interventions reached peaks of 311 and 340 in 20, respectively. In 2020 there were 43, in 2021 there were 37, and none in 2022 until March. ![]() Locally, there had been a decrease in the kinds of operation that have exemplified Morocco’s role as the EU’s “ gendarme”, insofar as attacks against migrant camps and shelters are concerned. Support our work: become a Friend of Statewatch from as little as £1/€1 per month.
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