Spanish police arrest 60 Moroccan illegal immigrants

The Spanish police arrested this Monday a group of 60 Moroccan illegal immigrants who had just arrived to the beach of Tarifa (extreme south of Spain), in the second operation of the kind after a group of 92 Moroccan and sub-Saharan illegal immigrants were also arrested Sunday.

The group of 60 Moroccans, including a women, sailed through the straight of Gibraltar in a small makeshift boat. The authorities started procedures to repatriate them to Morocco.

On Sunday, the Spanish police found a group of 92 illegal immigrants, comprising 27 Moroccans and 65 sub-Saharan nationals, including 22 women.