France Tightens Spain Border Overnight: Expect Delays
- On Friday, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced tighter border controls with Spain, activating the Rapid Intervention Border Force for in-depth inspections at the frontier.
- The measures respond to a migration crisis in Spain's North African Ceuta enclave, where around 40,000 migrants crossed from Morocco in recent days, straining the territory's 80,000-person population.
- Travelers face extra police presence at major motorway crossings near La Jonquera and Hendaye, with authorities advising drivers and train passengers to expect longer waits and prepare valid identity documents.
- Separately, the A63 motorway remains closed south of Bordeaux due to wildfires, while French rail operator SNCF reports mainline services halted until at least Sunday, August 2nd.
- Officials have not set an end date for the intensified measures, stating they will remain in place until the operational situation linked to Ceuta crossings stabilizes.
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France urgently strengthens border controls with Spain amid African 'invasion' in Ceuta
France urgently strengthens border controls with Spain amid African 'invasion' in Ceuta . France has urgently strengthened its border controls with Spain after 60,000 African migrants stormed the nation's enclave
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Correio da ManhãAndre Ventura believes that the latest events in Ceuta are a real invasion of migration. The party wants to be rebutted the control of land borders with Spain.
The minister stated on the social network X that he had "as early as last night (Thursday night) given instructions to immediately reinforce controls at the Spanish border" and activated the "Rapid Intervention Border Force for in-depth checks." Several tens of thousands of migrants have crossed the border in recent days to enter the enclave of Ceuta, according to a police source. "We have controls at the Franco-Spanish border; they exist, and…
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced on Friday the strengthening of controls at the border with Spain, on the basis of fears related to the large flow of migrants arriving in Ceuta. Police and military will participate in the operations, and a mobile unit will act permanently.
According to Spanish sources, tens of thousands of migrants arrive in the Ceuta exclave in Ceuta. France is now intensifying the surveillance of the border with Spain. Meanwhile, Chancellor Friedrich Merz is also responding.
France announced today that it will strengthen border controls with Spain.
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