Barcelona snub game in Morocco amid ‘uncertainty’

Barcelona on Thursday said they would not contest a friendly in Tangiers due to “uncertainty”, a week after an unprecedented migrant rush from Morocco to Spain’s territory of Ceuta.
The Catalan giants released a brief statement saying a men’s first-team game on August 15 had been ruled out amid “the current context of uncertainty”.
“FC Barcelona believes that the circumstances are currently not right for this match to be held,” the statement said.
Ceuta, a tiny territory of 84,000 inhabitants, received 72,000 migrants from July 30, according to official Spanish figures, with dozens drowning as they tried to swim around a barrier in the Mediterranean Sea.
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