At the start of February, protests took place in Saida in Morocco, Brussels in Belgium, Dakar in Senegal, Sokodé in Togo, and many other places in Africa and Europe, to commemorate an atrocity that had occurred seven years earlier.
On 6 February 2014, the Spanish Guardia Civil police force fired rubber bullets on people who were trying to swim around a border fence that separates Morocco from the Spanish city of Ceuta. Dozens drowned at sea and corpses were found on both the Moroccan and the Spanish side of the border. Other bodies disappeared and were never found.
Every year since, relatives of the disappeared and dead, together with activist supporters, organise CommemorActions – commemorations of the dead and missing fused with protest, outrage, and direct actions against forms of border violence that kill and disappear.
