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Martinez: "I could face charges of human trafficking" (Photo: EUobserver)

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EU preparing 'concentration camps' for migrants in Africa

by Andrew Rettman, Tangiers and Ceuta,

Europe and Morocco are increasing the suffering of migrants, including children, on the EU's only land border with Africa, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Tangiers has said.

EU plans to build asylum centres in Morocco would create "concentration camps for people who have no rights," Santiago Agrelo Martinez also told EUobserver.

The cleric, whose church has helped migrants in Tangiers, on Morocco's Mediterranean Sea coast, for the past 11 years, said more people had come there a...

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