Eight migrants expelled from Ceuta for committing crimes

Oito Moroccan migrants, who have remained in the autonomous Spanish city of Ceuta since the end of July, were expelled in two days by judicial sentences, due to different criminal acts, two of which were under preventive arrest.

According to the Spanish news agency, EFE judicial sources, all judgments have been issued by the judge holding the Criminal Section of the Court of Instance number 2 as a result of arrests in Ceuta in recent months.

Two Moroccans were expelled for assaulting a citizen to rob him of 60 euros and a pack of tobacco in the early hours of August 18, at 3:20 p.m. on Capitán Claudio Vázquez Street, for which they were sentenced to two years in prison for a crime of theft with violence and another year for a crime of injury.

Three other migrants were convicted of a crime of resistance to eight months in prison, for being arrested on October 14 and for resisting the arrest by the Civil Guard when they illegally occupied a land belonging to the former Farinha Factory.

Another migrant, arrested at 10:40 on 18 August, was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison for the crimes of aggression and serious injuries when he pushed a Civil Guard agent who was going to identify him to the walls of Puntilla pier.

Similarly, another migrant was sentenced to two years in prison for a crime of assault on the authority and a month for minor crimes of injury, after assaulting three National Police officers, whom he kicked, punched and scratched, at 5:30 p.m. on August 20, in the neighborhood of Loma Colmenar.

Finally, another Moroccan was sentenced to a year and two months in prison for the crime of assault on an officer of the authority, after his arrest at 5:00 p.m. on October 16, at España Avenue, by the National Police.

In all cases, prison sentences were replaced by expulsions from the national territory, almost all for a period of five years, except in a case which was replaced by expulsion from Spain for seven years.