Moroccan media announced, without citing any sources, that a Muslim youth called Younes, had died after being hit by a rubber bullet fired by Spanish police during riots this week in the enclave city of Melilla, a report that Spain says in "a complete lie".
Reuters reported yesterday that a spokesman for the Government Office in Melilla had assured that the only injuries demonstrators had suffered were "of a minor nature" and that there was only one wounded in the unrest, a policeman who was hit by a stone in the face.
The report of Younes's death was also denied by the Interior Ministry, the Delegation of the Government and the Mayor of Melilla, Juan Jose Imbroda.
The information in the death of Younes and its dissemination is an invention that, according to Spanish diplomats sources and Morrocan intellectuals in the city, was a deliberate attempt by Moroccan authorities to increase civil unrest in the city.
The news story was reported in the same way across many Moroccan news sources, and coincides with the real death of a young man, Saharawi Nayem Elgarhi, shot dead by Moroccan soldiers last Sunday, which has led to suspicions that there may be some official connection between the stories.
The day of protests yesterday, the fifth day of vindication, passed by without incident after a meeting held by the Government Delegate in the city, Gregorio Escobar, with representatives of the protesters.
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