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The Border Forensics NGO, a Geneva-based non-governmental organisation that investigates and documents cases of border violence, notably those involving state agencies, police forces, soldiers, and enterprises, released a counter-investigation report on Tuesday on the 2022 deaths of migrants and asylum seekers along Morocco’s border with Melilla, a Spanish exclave off the coast of North Africa.
The counter-investigation report was conducted by the NGO in collaboration with Irídia-Centre for the Defense of Human Rights and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH). According to Border Forensics, the report, titled “The Nador-Melilla Border Trap”, is an effort to investigate and reveal the scope of the violence that occurred. The study contains survivors’ testimonies and satellite photographs, showing evidence that reveals Moroccan officials pushed people seeking asylum to the border while militarizing it.
On June 24, 2022, at least 37 people lost their lives when a group of African asylum seekers attempted to cross a border station in Melilla due to the violence used by Moroccan and Spanish authorities. The UN condemned the border security forces’ actions, highlighting the lack of safe and legal routes of migration and barriers to accessing official border stations. Both Spain and Morocco denied responsibility for the deaths and disappearances that occurred on that day. Human rights advocates in Spain and Morocco demanded that inquiries be conducted after the occurrence.
Border Forensics claimed in its report that:
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The counter-investigation report was conducted by the NGO in collaboration with Irídia-Centre for the Defense of Human Rights and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH). According to Border Forensics, the report, titled “The Nador-Melilla Border Trap”, is an effort to investigate and reveal the scope of the violence that occurred. The study contains survivors’ testimonies and satellite photographs, showing evidence that reveals Moroccan officials pushed people seeking asylum to the border while militarizing it.
On June 24, 2022, at least 37 people lost their lives when a group of African asylum seekers attempted to cross a border station in Melilla due to the violence used by Moroccan and Spanish authorities. The UN condemned the border security forces’ actions, highlighting the lack of safe and legal routes of migration and barriers to accessing official border stations. Both Spain and Morocco denied responsibility for the deaths and disappearances that occurred on that day. Human rights advocates in Spain and Morocco demanded that inquiries be conducted after the occurrence.
Border Forensics claimed in its report that:
Several non-governmental organisations in Spain and Morocco, such as Walking Borders, maintain that the event resulted in more fatalities than the 23 the Moroccan authorities had confirmed. The organisation had earlier reported that the incident claimed the lives of at least 37 people
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