Spain Urges Calm After Anti-Migrant Protesters Clash with Police
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska urged calm as clashes left a soldier injured and 14 migrants arrested, officials said.
- On Friday, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska urged calm after residents of Ceuta clashed with police during protests against migrants remaining in the North African enclave.
- Tensions remain high in the territory of 80,000 people since at least 60,000 crossed into Ceuta in July, setting off a Europe-wide migrant alert.
- A soldier was injured Thursday when migrants threw stones at troops; 12 Moroccan migrants and two others arrested after attacking a police officer.
- Grande-Marlaska said "violence is not the answer," while head of local government Juan Vivas warned authorities would take action against anyone committing vandalism.
- Ceuta and Melilla form Europe's only land border with Africa, where authorities must identify individuals to determine asylum eligibility or deportation requirements.
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Spain urges calm after anti-migrant protesters clash with police in Ceuta
Spain's interior minister called for calm on Friday after residents of Ceuta clashed with police during protests against migrants who have remained in the North African enclave following a mass influx.
Tensions following the influx of more than 70,000 Moroccan migrants into the city of Ceuta escalated, while the Spanish Government called for a cessation of violence, following clashes between populations and migrants, and political polarization on ways to address the crisis.
The figures are so disproportionate that they lead unfailingly to alarm, panic and fear: the streets, mountains and beaches of Ceuta full of blacks and Moors without home, clothing, food or footwear and, of course, wandering without north or south. Nothing happens: they have wanted it. They have stayed at home, or have returned to it, as 90% of those who entered on July 30 and 31 did, and the party is over.
It's a demand that has been repeated practically since the more than 72,000 migrants arrived in Ceuta from Morocco by swimming, but that doesn't make it any less important. In this case, it's specifically the police officers deployed to contain the disturbances and prevent clashes in Ceuta who are beginning to feel the strain of days marked by tension, which has been growing during this last week in the streets of Ceuta. Read more
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