Today, the Court of Appeal has pronounced a verdict of 3 years imprisonment against 11 Sudanese and 4 Chadians involved in the events of June 24 in Bariochino, where 18 migrants were killed and dozens of migrants and police officers were injured in a “stampede”. This happened when they were trying to cross into the Spanish North African enclave of Melilia.
Out of the 2,000 people who attempted to enter the North African city during a violent two-hour skirmish, about 130 successfully breached the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave. The people concerned were previously handed over by the Royal Gendarmerie of Nador to appear before the Court of First Instance and were first sentenced on July 19, 2022 to 11 months of imprisonment before appealing the judgment before the Court of Appeal.
These migrants crossed the frontier through Algeria through human trafficking networks and migrants smugglers.