Clashes in Spain's Ceuta Month After Mass Migrant Influx
Police and soldiers intervened as protesters blocked aid and set migrant shelters ablaze, while Spain pledged €25 million more for unaccompanied minors.
- On Thursday, hundreds of Ceuta residents blocked Red Cross humanitarian convoys, breached police lines, and set fire to makeshift migrant camps at El Trampolín beach, marking a third consecutive day of violent unrest.
- The unrest follows the July 30 mass crossing of 70,000 migrants into Ceuta, leaving thousands in the territory; residents have held regular demonstrations citing security and hygiene concerns.
- Tensions escalated Thursday when about 70 migrants "ambushed" a military vehicle carrying four soldiers, attacking it with stones; a police spokesman in Ceuta told AFP that 12 Moroccan nationals were detained.
- Spain's Cabinet approved a "single command" for Ceuta led by Territorial Policy Minister Angel Victor Torres, committing €25 million to aid unaccompanied minors, though Popular Party leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo criticized the government's response.
- Estimates of the remaining migrant population vary sharply: Spain's government reports 3,500 to 7,000 people in Ceuta, while local right-wing leaders insist the figure is at least 10,000, complicating humanitarian efforts.
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American Wire NewsSpanish residents tear down migrant camps, block Red Cross in massive uprising
Residents in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta are taking to the streets to defend their city. Ceuta sits across the Straights of Gibraltar from mainland Spain in […]
Groups of protesters broke into the areas where 500 to 1,000 undocumented foreigners spend the night, part of the thousands who entered the city illegally, burning their shelters.
(London=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Ji-yeon = Chaos continues in Ceuta, a Spanish autonomous city in North Africa, following a massive influx of migrants.
A month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave in North Africa, new unrest is reported from Ceuta. This time, protesters are to blame. A group of rioters set fire to a migrant camp, clashed with police and tried to block Red Cross vehicles.
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