Some 72,000 migrants breached the border in an unprecedented and deadly rush between 30-31 July, with 70,000 having since returned to Morocco, according to Spanish government figures.
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Italy and Spain’s Schengen border spat over Ceuta has exposed a deeper migration rift, as domestic politics and rising far-right rivals harden both sides’ positions.
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Hundreds of Ceuta residents gathered on Sunday to demand an “immediate, decisive and proportionate” response to the migration crisis, in a protest, organised by the city’s four religious communities.
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At least four migrant girls under the age of 14 have been treated at Ceuta University Hospital after alleged sexual assaults following last week’s influx of migrants into Spain’s north African exclave.
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Rome had earlier said it “does not accept ultimatums or impositions from abroad regarding national security and border control.”
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Spain says 70,000 migrants have returned to Morocco, denies the CNI warned of the crisis and says the EU backed its response while pledging stronger alert systems.
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Viral posts about opening the Spanish border pushed thousands of Moroccans towards Ceuta, exposing serious control failures. Several migrants say they were told they could cross and insist it was not traffickers who led them there.
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Juan Vivas, the president of Ceuta, estimates that between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remain in the city four days after the mass influx from Morocco.
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Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain’s north African territory, most by swimming, have returned to Morocco since the territory’s largest mass migrant crossing.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has described the mass crossing of migrants as a “violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”. Internal sources of the spanish media ‘The Objective’ confirms that intel reports existed before the crisis. The Spanish government denied it.
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