2,423 Moroccans have disappeared in Spain cases until October, including hundreds of minors, in what human rights associations call a significant increase that’s likely caused by human organ traffic.
The Nador-based Gran Rif Human Rights Association has requested the intervention of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to follow up on the issue of the disappearance of Moroccans in Spain.
“There is a strong suspicion of the existence of gangs of human organ traffickers that could be behind many of the disappearances of Moroccan immigrants,” the NGO said, quoted by Spanish news outlet El Espanol.
In 2021, 2,856 Moroccans were listed as missing, of these, 2,317 were minors.
The Spanish Interior Ministry rejected claims of organ trafficking or child trafficking. Police sources told El Espanol that “these are specific and voluntary disappearances of young people who leave the juvenile centers and then return.”
Agents who work with minors in Ceuta and Melilla also deny the presence of trafficking. ” The vast majority are minors who escape from centers and, although they later return, logically they have to file a complaint, and that increases the statistics of missing persons,” according to El Espanol sources.
They also warn that many of these young people “constantly change their names”, which gives rise to their being listed as missing.
Security Forces in Spain collected 22,285 reports of missing persons in 2021, which represents an increase of 21.5% compared to the previous year. Among these complaints, Morocco is the country with the highest number of disappearances in our country.
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