Since the massive crossing on July 30 and 31, during which more than 70,000 people entered Ceuta, 214 immigrants have been expelled to Morocco for committing crimes, according to a report from the Ministry of the Interior. Police sources detail that three of the expelled had records for crimes related to jihadist terrorism. In addition, between August 10 and 31 of the same month, 3,519 people have voluntarily returned to Morocco, which still has the return door open at the Tarajal crossing. These voluntary returns would be the continuous trickle following the wave of returns on the first weekend after the assault, when 90% of the people who entered irregularly returned to their country.
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The priority remains to get the thousands of people who continue to spend the night on the streets off the streets. The Government says there are about 5,000 people, but a walk around the outskirts of the autonomous city is enough to verify that this figure is underestimated. According to the designated single command for the crisis, Minister Ángel Víctor Torres, there are currently 3,400 reception places available for immigrants. Here the Government includes the expansion of 500 beds at the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) that began to be deployed before the massive jump. Yesterday, 800 people were transferred to new spaces. Half a thousand got a bed in the parking lot of the Loma Colmenar Embolsamiento, where tense moments were experienced when immigrants clashed over access to the parking lot equipped with military tents.
This morning moments of tension were repeated, although this time the Police did not have to fire shots into the air. According to police sources, it is not expected that the center’s doors will open this Tuesday, but from outside you can see how dozens of new military beds have arrived, which have caused a call effect among immigrants, who have again crowded on the sidewalk adjacent to the Embolsamiento. About twenty riot police control the situation, under the watchful eye of neighbors of adjacent buildings, who show their enormous anger over the expansion of this space. They feel that the neighborhoods on the outskirts are suffering all the migratory pressure in the city, while the streets of the center have completely regained their normality.
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As the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced yesterday, the intention is to increase the available places to 6,000. These would be places for adults or accompanied children, because minors who crossed without family support depend on the autonomous city, which assumes guardianship upon their arrival. These 6,000 places intended to be enabled contrast with the number still offered by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who speaks of 5,000 people remaining in Ceuta.
The Government has removed the sports centers of Ceuta as spaces to accommodate immigrants, after including them last week in the decree published in the BOE. The old military hospital and the flour factory have also been discarded due to neighborhood opposition. Instead, plots around the port and land from the Ministry of Housing are being incorporated, as well as a military barracks. Likewise, the Ministry of Defense has made new spaces and infrastructures available for the care of migrants and bunk beds, tents, and other infrastructures have also been moved to Ceuta. It has been agreed with Defense to use shelters and spaces used by the Armed Forces where National Police officers can work.
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