Moroccan police have opened a judicial investigation into an attempted irregular migration operation by sea near El Marsa, on the outskirts of Laayoune, authorities said over the weekend.
The local judicial police unit at the regional security commissariat in El Marsa launched the probe under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office, with the aim of identifying and arresting all those involved in organizing and carrying out the illegal migration attempt.
According to security sources, national police services were alerted after public forces assigned to guard the coastal strip in the El Marsa area intervened to stop an attempted sea crossing involving an inflatable boat.
Authorities managed to detain several migration candidates at the scene, while others managed to flee using the same inflatable boat.
The detained individuals were placed under judicial investigation procedures supervised by the public prosecutor, while field investigations remain ongoing to identify those suspected of organizing the criminal operation.
Security officials said videos circulating on social media documented part of the incident, prompting wider public attention.
Authorities also pushed back against what they described as inaccurate information being circulated about the case, stressing that the immediate intervention by public forces led to the arrest of several candidates for i
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