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Spanish Military Arrest Four Moroccans after they Tried to Hoist Moroccan Flag in Badis Island

Morocco World News

Rabat, August 29, 2012

Spanish soldiers on Wednesday arrested four Moroccans who tried to penetrate into the Badis Islands (Vélez de la Gomera in Spanish), which located a few hundred meters away from the Moroccan city of Al Huceima and is under Spanish sovereignty.

According to the news site Hespress, the four people were subjected to excessive of violence by the Spanish police as soon as they sat foot in the Island. The four people intended to hoist the Moroccan flag in this disputed tiny island.

This “march”’ was organized at the initiative of Moroccan MP, Yahya Yahya known for his activism in defending the sovereignty over this island, as well as on the enclaves of Sebta and Melillia and other islands located in northern Morocco.

“We tried this morning to access to the occupied Badis peninsula Badis, a Moroccan territory controlled by Spain. We did that peacefully while carrying the Moroccan flag, but the Spanish military intervened with excessive use of violence and arrested 4 of us before brandishing their weapons in our faces”, Yahya Yahya was quoted by Hespress as saying.

Like the Jaafariya Islands and Leila island, Badis island is a bone of contention between Morocco and Spain, as both countries claim their sovereignty over this rocky territory.

In 2002, Leila Island made headlines all over the world, when the Spanish government decided to send a war ship to dislodge 17 Moroccan soldiers who landed in this island located 300 meters away from the Moroccan coast and planted the Moroccan flag.

While Morocco has never recognized Spanish sovereignty over this tiny Island, Madrid claims that the latter has been under its sovereignty since 1564.

Source : http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2012/08/53630/spanish-military-arrest-four-moroccans-after-they-tried-to-hoist-moroccan-flag-in-badis-island/

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Added: Aug-29-2012 
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  • IT IS TIME FOR SPAIN TO GIVE BACK OUR LAND COLONIAL ERA IS OVER!

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    • @ORGASMATRON
      It's not your land, it's Spanish land. What the heck would make it your land? You weren't born there.

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    • @dorbie So all the lands in northern Morocco don't belong to it ?

      http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/s/s/19/media19/2012/Aug/29/LiveLeak-dot-com-78987ab3e2cd-map.png?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bad3904f43dbd741fb&ec_rate=300

      Does this seem logic to you ?

      Does this seem logic to you if more than 50Km² were cut out from your country ?

      http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/s/s/19/media19/2012/Aug/29/LiveLeak-dot-com-5044112124a9-mapzoomin.png?d5e8cc8eccfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c More..

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    • @ORGASMATRON It would be nice if the colonial powers would pull their head out of the asses and start to do the right thing. Stealing someone's property at gun point doesn't make it your, anymore than if you rob a bank at gun point makes the money yours.

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    • @dorbie

      By looking at the maps above, logic would say it belongs to Morocco

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    • @dorbi

      Yes i was thank you very much,

      Then we claim El Andaloes back because we where there first for 800 years Iberia was ours before Spain ever exited..

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  • Lesson learned, don't fuck with anyone's military.

    Posted Aug-29-2012 By 

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  • Remember this whenever they start moaning about Gibraltar :-)

    Posted Aug-29-2012 By 

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  • Should Canada do the same to St.Pierre & Michelon Island hundreds of miles inland up the St.Lawrence River.

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  • Morocco did not exist when it was Spanish and I will defend it to the last drop of my blood like the Americans do the same thing hawaii defended us, I would propose to expel 500,000 Moors from Spain and they left for Morocco and put artillery on the coast to defend the border and enter not one, what they want is vindication of al-Andalus al-Qaeda of all known

    Posted Aug-29-2012 By 

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    • @periquetin If you read my comment below you would know what i'm talking about.

      Take for example Ceuta (Sebta), it has been a Moroccan land and settled since the 5th BC.

      "In 1415, during the Battle of Ceuta, the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of John I of Portugal. The Moroccan Sultan besieged the city in 1418 but was defeated."

      "The formal allegiance of Ceuta to Spain was recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon by which, on January 1, 1668, King Afonso VI of P More..

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    • @AYOUB17 with the same term throughout the Spanish claim most of america that was our 400 years ago, if you will going to cost you what you have to cost and I do not brainwashed in school who perhaps have washed the be to you in your country that is a dictatorship and I remind you that Morocco did not exist in the nineteenth century and before the Republic of the Rif was not mean it's morocco, sahara for free because when you remember that the Treaty of Madrid was saying this, the Madrid Agreeme More..

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    • @periquetin Just a reminder, Morocco was the first country in the world that recognized the independence of the USA so, there is a huge difference between an idependance and an occupation.

      You don't say anything new here ... you say Morocco didn't exist without any counter proof ... Tell me, what were called the Moroccans before the nineteeth century ? UNDEFINED SPECIES ? BS ...

      Morocco has existed way before the arrival of Islam, and still existing until today and it will be until tomorrow.

      More..

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    • @AYOUB17 what has happened to you that if you will not going to be stealing cost free blood and history that war and had conquered, what I say is that I will defend to the last drop of my blood and site

      Posted Aug-30-2012 By 

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    • @AYOUB17 Nssa Tabon mo hada Rah mrid

      Posted Nov-26-2012 By 

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  • Is occupied Western Sahara, and the occupants are Moroccans. Neither the Sahara, or Spanish plazas in North Africa have never Morocco.

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  • Spain has plundered the world for centuries, it's time to give something back...

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    • @ingeborgsjon Swedes not being told the Norwegians

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    • @periquetin That sentence makes no sense... How about your fishing fleet stops expoiting the coasts of Africa so people there can make a living and don't have to turn to piracy?

      Posted Aug-30-2012 By 

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    • @ingeborgsjon Norwegian and no, I say it has to do with the Somali piracy this from morocco

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    • @periquetin

      "Oceana, the environmental group that focuses on threats to the sea, has long been studying illegal fishing in the region.

      According to the group, within Somalia’s exclusive economic zone waters, or EEZ, EU-flagged tuna vessels, particularly from Spain, regularly headed there to fish until 2006 when the pirate threat made it too dangerous. These fishing firms engaged in such practices even though there had not been any agreement negotiated between Somalia and the European C More..

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    • @ingeborgsjon these diverting the topic if you want to speak it, that's the subject country and we will defend to the end like you would do with your country, they tire out our resources with giving birth, hospitals etc in Ceuta and Melilla and all that are in Spain and just add anything to what we are being racist and put it up and then tell the Spanish that waste

      Posted Aug-30-2012 By 

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