Requests to prevent the use of a “Schengen” visa to enter Ceuta and Melilla

Heba Press/. Rabat

The Rif-Kébir Association for Human Rights has called on the Moroccan authorities to ban the use of the Schengen visa to enter Ceuta and Melilla, given that they do not belong to the Schengen area.

The aforementioned association recorded in a statement that it had noted, since the reopening of the crossings of the occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla, after the end of the state of health emergency due to the spread of the Covid-19 virus, that the Moroccan authorities and their Spanish counterparts have not attempted to restore the transport conditions as they were before, as the authorities have imposed on Spanish residents of Tetouan and Nador to obtain a special Spanish visa or a Schengen visa in order to travel to these borders.

The association confirmed that the Moroccan authorities officially rejected the special visa that the Spanish authorities had issued to residents of the cities of Tetouan and Nador, and ordered that it not be recognized as an official document and that its holders not be allowed to pass. , adds the association, “they continued to ask those who wish to enter Ceuta and Melilla to present a Schengen visa from the Schengen area, to which Ceuta and Melilla do not belong.”

The Human Rights Association of the Greater Rif has proposed allowing entry and exit from Ceuta and Melilla to residents of Melilla, Nador, Ceuta and Tetouan, without a visa, with the security institution marking all entries and exits through an electronic system.