A Migration Crisis in Ceuta Strains a Tradition of Coexistence
The first royal trip to the enclaves since 2007 comes after a migrant surge that left about 72,000 people crossing from Morocco, officials said.
- Spanish King Felipe and Queen Letizia will visit the north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on October 13th and 14th. The palace confirmed, "This visit has been agreed by the government and the royal household."
- Ceuta has been embroiled in a humanitarian crisis since more than 70,000 migrants streamed into the small city on July 30th and 31st. Thousands of migrants remain in dire conditions, sleeping on the streets and beaches.
- Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez urged the royal visit last month, stating the city needed to feel "supported by the state more than ever." The government must assess asylum claims while protecting unaccompanied children.
- This trip marks the first royal visit since King Juan Carlos in November 2007 sparked a diplomatic crisis with Morocco. Morocco claims sovereignty over the territories, leading to past protests where Moroccans called them "Moroccan."
- Amid rumors regarding Rabat's potential role in the migrant surge, Felipe recently told French President Emmanuel Macron that the European Union must be "more efficient and show more solidarity in the protection of the union's external border.
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Most have signed the “discontinuance of asylum application” in front of an interpreter
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SIC NotíciasTrampolín beach had become the main informal settlement of migrants who arrived in Ceuta in late July, with about 3,500 people sheltered there for more than two months.
Madrid. Almost at dawn, when the sky was still dark, the Spanish National Police began the device to carry out an eviction on the beach of Trampolin, in Ceuta, where about 3,500 migrants, mostly Moroccans, live, who were camped there with houses built with garbage remains, plastic bags and cardboards to protect themselves from the cold.
The migrants will be transported back by bus to the border crossing, where yesterday more than half of the migrants expressed their desire to return voluntarily to their country of origin.
Spain has carried out a major police operation in Ceuta as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in various cities over a housing crisis. The two issues developed simultaneously over the weekend and put Pedro Sánchez’s government under intense public and political pressure. Over 1,100 migrants removed from Ceuta beach More than 350 Spanish police, backed by armoured vehicles, launched an operation on El Trampoline beach, where makeshif…
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