Spain: in brief (1)
01 September 1996
Deportee shot by Guinea-Bissau police: The police in Guinea-Bissau have shot dead one of the 103 African immigrants expelled from Spain at the end of July. The death occurred during a demonstration in which 45 deportees took part to demand better conditions in detention and their return to Spain. The dead man was a Nigerian, as was another who was wounded in the episode.
Reinforcement of Melilla perimeter: Troops of the Spanish army have been engaged in laying ten kilometres of razor wire along the fence marking the border between the Melilla enclave and Morocco, replacing the wire installed in 1971.