After the sudden arrival of thousands of migrants at the Ceuta border, the residents took out their phones to record and be able to transmit and process calmly later what was happening at that moment.
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The images are recorded from the balcony of a home, focusing on a long line of people along the coast, to recordings taken at the roadside near the border crossing. Videos that convey disorder, chaos, joy, and scares in front of a situation of complex understanding.
The column of people continues advancing while Morocco confirms the agreement reached with Spain to speed up the repatriation of those who have entered Ceuta irregularly. The crowd, mostly made up of young people, stretches along the nearly five kilometers that separate the urban center from the border crossing with the autonomous city.
The sequence of the assault on the Ceuta fence
This is how the migrants made their way through
Before reaching the Spanish border, the migrants crossed a barbed wire fence on the Moroccan side that borders the sea. When the Moroccan auxiliary forces tried to stop the passage, thousands of people were near the Spanish fence and the device was overwhelmed by the magnitude of the gathering.
It is through these areas that dozens of people managed to reach the breakwater and the fence without any police device being seen to prevent their advance. At the same time, other dozens threw themselves into the sea intending to access Ceuta by following the border line. Other groups walked parallel to the fence towards the Spanish fence.
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The Government, despite not being able to activate the national emergency in Ceuta as requested by the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesus Vivas, has granted this afternoon the deployment of Army units to reinforce security at various points in the city in response to the entry of thousands of migrants recorded in recent hours.
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What happened in Ceuta has also been recorded in our retinas. All thanks to the virality of images filmed from mobile phones. What really scares about these images is the will and determination to cross a border even if it could cost you your life. And yet, among so many shared videos, there is an effect that continues to generate discussions and an unanswered call.
