Thousands Take to the Streets in Madrid over Ceuta Migrant Crisis
- Thousands of people rallied in Madrid on Saturday to protest the Spanish government's handling of the recent migrant influx into Ceuta, accusing officials of failing to protect the country's borders.
- More than 70,000 migrants arrived in Ceuta from Morocco on July 30 and 31; although most returned, thousands have remained for weeks, straining the small city's resources and creating a political crisis.
- To address the situation, the Cabinet plans to approve a decree on Tuesday to accelerate the return of migrants to Morocco, limiting applicants' ability to remain in Spain during asylum consideration.
- PP parliamentary spokesman Miguel Tellado told reporters at the demonstration, "There is clear negligence," adding that "the majority of Spaniards are calling for an election now." Vox leader Santiago Abascal echoed the distrust.
- While the Sociedad Civil Espanola estimated 180,000 participants, Madrid officials placed the turnout at around 20,000. A manifesto demanded an early election and that Socialist Prime Minister Pedro be tried for "treason.
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Thousands of people have participated in the "March for Dignity" in Madrid, demanding a solution to the migrant crisis in Ceuta. The protest, organized by the Spanish Civil Society with the support of the People's Party (PP) and Vox, started from Plaza de Cibeles and continued towards the Arco del Triunfo in Moncloa. Among the protesters was the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, who demanded that the migrants who arrived in Ceuta be returned to t…
Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid in support of the residents of the city of Ceuta, which has been at the center of the migration crisis, and against the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. The leaders of the center-right Popular Party and the right-wing populist Vox party also took part in the demonstration.
About 20 thousand people, according to the Delegation of the Government in Madrid, participated today in the second 'Marcia per la dignità', convened by the Sociedad Civil Espanola and to which the People's Party and Vox joined, against the management of the crisis... (ANSA)
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The demonstrators, many of whom held red and yellow Spanish flags, chanted "Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta must be defended" by marching in the center of the Spanish capital. Ceuta, Spanish territory located in North Africa, has been plunged into a humanitarian crisis since the arrival of more than 70,000 migrants from neighbouring Morocco on 30 and 31 July. Most left in the following hours, but thousands stayed for weeks, sleeping for many on the…
Thousands of people protested in Madrid this Saturday against the management of the Spanish government of the recent mass arrival of immigrants to Ceuta, accusing the office of socialist Pedro Sánchez of not protecting the country's borders and demanding early general elections. By the Spanish electoral calendar, they must happen next year, without a specified date, but before August. By waving flags of the country, the protesters sang the cries…
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