Former president of Moroccan football club gets five-year sentence for fraud
Mohamed Boudrika, a parliamentarian who was president of Raja Casablanca football club between 2012 and 2016 has been sentenced to
Spanish police on Thursday said they had broken up a network suspected of smuggling at least 70 Syrian and Algerian migrants to Spain and made three arrests. The migrants paid the smuggling ring up to almost $11,000 each for trips on small boats from Algeria to Spain before travelling to other European countries, police said in a statement. The boats lacked any safety measures, water or food, posing a "serious risk" to the migrants' lives, while the organization used violence against those who failed to pay on time, it added.
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