By Mar Marín
Castillejos, Morocco, Aug 1 (EFE).- Jobs, better wages, and a chance for the future. These were the reasons that drove many young Moroccans to risk their lives in the country’s worst migration crisis, in a nation where one in three people under 29 is neither studying nor working.
Young people like Fátima, Ahmed, and Mohamed, just a few of those EFE spoke with at the border between Morocco and Ceuta, were prepared to brave the sea in pursuit of a European dream.
At 25, Fátima had already tried twenty times to swim from Fnideq (Castillejos, northern Morocco) to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. «I don’t care about the risk; I will return,» she said this week. And, as confirmed by EFE with her associates, this time, she succeeded.
Fátima, who was once part of the youth unemployment statistics in Morocco, is now one of the 60,000 irregular migrants who have crossed into Ceuta, and one of the few who has managed to stay in the Spanish autonomous city.
