The avalanche of immigrants who entered Ceuta last week not only captured attention due to the humanitarian emergency but also because of its geopolitical consequences and diplomatic implications. International media featured front pages and news reports with images from El Tarajal, but have maintained coverage focusing on the reasons behind what happened and have analyzed who wins and who loses in this whole story.

They had promised us, just yesterday, that there would be a police presence in front of the school. See: not a trace.” Fátima Embarek is the president of the parents’ association of the Ramón y Cajal school, which some people from Ceuta still know by its old name Convoy de la Victoria. Not a single officer or soldier at half past eight in the morning – the appointment is at nine – except Hebil Tarek, eleven years old, and his father Mohamed. “He is so eager to start that we are already here”