A court in Ceuta today determined the expulsion of twelve Moroccan migrants convicted of various crimes related to theft and violence from Spain for a period of five years.
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24/09/2026
by
Lusa
Sthe defendants were in custody and, after confessing the facts and accepting the sentences requested, the prison sentences were replaced by expulsion.
All these migrants remained in the city since the mass entry took place on 30 and 31 July, with the twelve convicts participating in different criminal actions that led to their arrests.
Among the crimes that motivated the convictions are violent thefts and attacks against officers of the authority or members of the Armed Forces.
In one case, four migrants were convicted of the crime of attack on August 29, at El Chorrillo Beach, against a patrol of the Armed Forces, when they threw large stones against the military, one of them having reached the forearm of one of them.
The four were sentenced to one year and nine months in prison, a sentence replaced by five years of expulsion from Spain.
In all five cases, decisions record the confession of the facts and the acceptance of sentences by migrants.
At least 72,000 people illegally entered Ceuta, a Spanish city located in North Africa, on July 30 and 31.