Migrants
Morocco said yesterday it would deport 141 migrants arrested on Sunday as they tried to storm a border fence with the Spanish enclave of Melilla.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the incursion resulted in “the death of a person after falling from the top of the fence and wounding 22 injured by barbed wire in the fence, were taken to the hospital.”
Twelve members of the security forces were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.
Spanish authorities said about 200 migrants had climbed the fence and were taken to a reception center in Melilla. Morocco said the remaining people who failed to climb the fence would be deported to their home country’s.
Spain sent 55 migrants back to Morocco after they forced their way into the Melilla.
Ford Cars
U.S. car manufacturer Ford will stop car production in its plant in Almussafes in eastern Spain for nine days during November due to a lower demand for its vehicles, a spokesman said earlier.
Engine production would also be halted for 13 days next month. Part of the Spanish production of Ford engines is sent to Canada for assembly of its Edge model.
The latest production shut down comes after a three-day halt in October.
Ford employs some 7,500 workers at the Almussafes plant which produces around 1,840 cars a day.
Racial Abuse
Spanish police are investigating an incident on a Ryanair plane where an elderly black woman was racially abused by a fellow passenger.
Essex Police said they have identify both parties involved in the incident and passed the information to the Spanish authorities, who are leading on this investigation.
Video footage posted online shows Deslie Gayle, who is disabled and in her 70s, being shouted out by a white man.
Ms Gayle said she was shocked, nobody ever said those words to me.
Man Found
Thanks to observant neighbors and the diligence of the police, a man missing from France has been found in Elche
Police located the man who has a mental disorder and went missing from his home in the French town of Montpellier.
The 37-year old had been missing for several weeks and was the subject of an international search.
Elche Local police reported that several neighbors had alerted them to the presence of a man, apparently lost and unkempt.
Public Transport
Busses will be free for those living in Marbella and San Pedro de Alcantara next year as part of a drive to encourage the use of public transport.
But to make use of the service, you must live in the areas and be registered as a resident.
Marbella town hall will create a transport card that will grant all holders free travel on buses.
The initiative, which will cost the town hall around €3 million a year, will also allow the town hall to encourage registration among residents who live in the municipality and are not officially on the Padron.