50-Boat Flotilla Sails to Ceuta Amid Migration Tensions
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50-boat flotilla sails to Ceuta amid migration tensions
The initiative gathers around 120 people from Spanish ports to support the city after late-July migration pressures. After days of clashes, no further mobilisation is expected in the autonomous city this weekend.
Francisco Mier del Castillo, one of the organizers, explains to 20 minutes that they have received a "very positive" response from the Ceutíes and that they are "very excited" before the arrival of the sailors.
When one month of the migratory avalanche invaded Ceuta , a spontaneous citizen initiative has organized a navigation towards the autonomous city from numerous ports of the south of the Peninsula, as a gesture of “solidarity and brotherhood” with the Ceuti people. In fact, the participants, anonymous Spaniards who habitually sail together, have called it the “Armed of Solidarity”. “We make them almost every year”, tells ABC one of these citizens…
The organizer, Marcos de Quinto, has commented in Onda Cero that they hope to reach the Ceutí coasts in the afternoon and they want this to be repeated in the future, as a periodic meeting between the two shores. Feijóo demands the appearance of the director of the CNI to say "the truth" about Ceuta: "What the Government knew before the invasion"More than 260 municipalities call for citizen rallies in support of Ceuta on September 2nd
The citizens' initiative, launched from various points along the Costa del Sol, seeks to convey a message of support to the people of Ceuta under the slogan "United for Ceuta, united for Spain." Several ships docked at the Royal Yacht Club of Algeciras are joining the effort.
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