Borders of violence: “When I resisted to enter the small dark room, they started beating me..”

Alarm Phone: Western Med Regional Analysis, 18 March - 31 May 2019
Since August/September 2018, we have witnessed a constant exacerbation of the situation of travellers in transit on the Western Mediterranean route. Violence and the threat of detention is a constant reality for sub-saharan travellers. The title is taken from the testimony of an AP member who was arrested and beaten in Tanger. The assault was witnessed by another comrade (see below). Her experience is just one example of police violence and unlawful arbitrary repression in Morocco. It is not an unfortunate, if all to common blip but part of the violent structures imposed by the Moroccan state at the behest of the European Union. We will not stop making visible and denouncing this structural violence! read more

Language(s): Englisch / English
Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika