(AFP) A rights group on Wednesday said Moroccan and Spanish authorities were responsible for a horrific border tragedy last month in which two dozen migrants died.
It resulted in the highest migrant death toll in years of attempts to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla, one of the European Union’s only land borders with Africa.
“The tragedy of June 24 cost the lives of 27 migrants and was due to unprecedented repression by the Moroccan authorities, with the complicity of their Spanish counterparts,” Omar Naji of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) told journalists in Rabat.
Moroccan authorities have said 23 migrants died when some 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier.
