| MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MILITARIZATION OF EUROPE'S SOUTHERN BORDER |
| The Spanish enclave Melilla in Northern Africa is surrounded by a heavily fortified border separating it from Morocco. Nowadays this border consists on the Spanish side of three up to six-meter high fences equipped with anticlimbing meshes and three-dimensional wire webs between them designed to trap human beings. Day and night, the borderline is controlled by Guardia Civil patrols and an intelligent surveillance system including motion detectors, infrared cameras and secret surveillance technology. | Moroccan military forces keep watch over the other side of the border. Here, an additional fence packed with razor-sharp barbed wire and a massive ditch complete the worrisome militarization of the Spanish-Moroccan land border. Those who try in great desperation to cross it are forced to risk nothing less than their lives. |
| For more than ten years, human rights violations have been observed at the border of Melilla. Migrants are prevented from entering Spain legally, refugees from applying for asylum. They are forced to cross Melilla's border irregularly and to risk their lives in doing so. As a result, several tragic incidents at the border have occurred in which people died, were killed, or were severely injured or beaten trying desperately to reach Europe. |
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