The older man, aged 34, boarded the ferry linking Melilla, a Spanish territory in North Africa, and Almeria with a auto on Sunday, a police spokesman said.
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A Moroccan man died while being smuggled into Spain in the boot of a auto, reports say.
He reportedly raised the alarm about the stowaway’s condition when the ferry docked.
Crew members as well as emergency services workers in the port of Almeria tried in vain to resuscitate the man.
Jerez added that the brother, a Moroccan with a French passport, was arrested. The identity of the dead Moroccan has not been officially revealed.
Melilla and Spain’s other north African territory, Ceuta, have become extremely common points of entry into Europe for migrants in recent years.
On Sunday, Morocco’s Interior Ministry said four migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned while trying to swim around a fence from the mainland to the second enclave, Ceuta.
In May an 8-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast was discovered by a security scanner also curled up inside a suitcase.
The boy, who was barely breathing, was later granted temporary residence and rejoined his mother, who lives in Spain, after DNA tests confirmed their relationship.
In February last year, hundreds of migrants stormed the fence in Melilla in one day, with around 100 of them managing to force their way into the enclave.
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His father, a legal resident in Spain, had tried to smuggle the boy into Spain because his income was too low to request residency papers for his son.
