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Around 25,000 migrants returned to Morocco after mass border crossing into Ceuta
Spanish authorities said most of the 48,300 migrants who crossed from Morocco had already returned after the sudden surge overwhelmed border controls.
- Around 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta starting Thursday, about 70 percent of the city's population, according to Juan Jesús Vivas, head of Ceuta's local government.
- Approximately 25,000 migrants have returned to Morocco after the mass crossing into Ceuta, reported Spain's Interior Ministry.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez described the migrant influx as an "attack" on Spain's "territorial integrity".
- Moroccan forces used batons and tear gas to stop more migrants from crossing into Ceuta, trying to control the crowd at the border gates.
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The situation in Ceuta, Spain, is returning to normal after more than 60,000 migrants who swam around the Moroccan border fence into Spain have almost all returned home.
Spain announced the return to a "reasonable normality" in Ceuta after the departure of almost all the tens of thousands of people who crossed from Morocco to this North African enclave, which triggered a migration crisis that EU Interior Ministers will address on Tuesday. "Invasion? No. That's a lie," he told AFP Soufian, a 42-year-old Moroccan who swam into Ceuta. "All people want to go up, they want a good future, that there is no one in Moroc…
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