Migrant Influx in Ceuta: Two Weeks Later, the City of Fnideq Is Under Heavy Police Presence.
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For more than a week, online publications claim that the border post between the Moroccan city of Fnideq and Ceuta "will be open" on 15 August, "a holiday in Spain".
Ceuta is armored in Ferragosto after the calls circulated on social networks for a new mass entry into the Spanish enclave. Madrid has strengthened the controls, while Morocco has deployed thousands of agents, military, barbed wire and water cannons. In today's morning Moroccan security forces have also blocked hundreds of people headed for Ceuta, hidden in a mountainous area near Fnideq. Sad Ben Hadda, 21, Moroccan, tells how these attempts wou…
According to Spanish media, security forces in the mountains on the Moroccan side of the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta have prevented several hundred people from attempting to cross the heavily guarded border. It is believed that these are not Moroccans, but predominantly people from more southerly African countries.
This Saturday, Ceuta faces a new day of maximum tension due to the fear of another massive influx of immigrants from Morocco, after the arrival of tens of thousands of people at the end of July. The call released in recent weeks on social networks has led Spain and Morocco to extraordinarily reinforce their security devices around the border. The Guardia Civil has considered the risk of a new crossing attempt to be real, while the Moroccan autho…
Thousands of security forces have been sent to Ceuta to prevent a new wave of migrants.
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