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An Algerian shouting ‘Allah Akbar ‘ and attacking police officers shot dead A 29-year-old man from Algeria, identified as Abdelouahab Taib, went to the Mossos d’Esquadra police station (police in Catalonia) on Monday morning shortly before 6:00. A policewoman opened the door and the suspect threw himself on her, trying …

August 1, the Spanish Civil Guard arrested two Moroccans suspected of embracing jihadists in the city of Mataró. According to some local media reports, the two accused were planning a terrorist attack on the Barcelona Camp Nou Football Stadium. The local Spanish media revealed that the dismantled cell was preparing …

Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell denied Monday that the country was experiencing “mass” immigration and said Europe needed “new blood” to compensate for a low birth rate. “We’re trivialising the word ‘mass’,” he told reporters after talks in Madrid with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi. Close to 21,000 migrants have …

The number of migrants using the Strait of Gibraltar have streamed out since the beginning of the year. Hundreds of them are trying to reach Europe’s shores. Dozens jump from a boat to land on the coast of Cadiz (Spain). In the middle of the waves, young men run between …

Around 800 migrants stormed border fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco to cross into Europe, police said Thursday Spain’s Civil Guard said 602 of the migrants made it onto Spanish soil in a massive assault on high, razor-wire fences shortly after dawn. Migrants cut holes in the fences and …

The Spanish sea rescue services have rescued 400 new refugees in the western Mediterranean. The number of migrants brought to a safe place since Friday is thus increased to over 1100. The refugees were in more than 50 boats in the Alboran Sea and in the Strait of Gibraltar. They …

Members of Spain’s conservative party want the country to leave the EU’s Schengen Area if they “aren’t respected” by Germany, following their refusal to extradite separatist Catalan leader Puigdemont to Spain on grounds of treason. Two members of Spain’s former ruling party have told socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez he …

Spain becomes the new main entry point for migrants leaving Africa for the European Union, according to the immigration statistics for the first five months of 2018. From January through May, 19,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Spain, almost as much as for the whole of 2017, and, for the …

At a European Council meeting at the end of June in Brussels, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Workers’ Socialist Party) reached an agreement with Angela Merkel in order to accommodate some migrants now settled in Germany. In exchange, Berlin will finance part of their settlement on …