Política

Italy decided yesterday to extend border controls for another 15 days on passengers arriving by plane and ship from Spain. The temporary suspension of Schengen between the two countries, introduced on August 1 due to the Ceuta migration crisis, was set to expire this Monday, August 31, but Giorgia Meloni’s government ultimately chose to maintain the measure until September 15. The initial intention of the Executive was to extend the controls for another month, but a two-week extension was finally chosen for technical reasons.

The Minister of Childhood and Youth, Sira Rego, has once again insisted this Monday on the need to proceed with the reception in the Peninsula of the migrant minors who are in Ceuta, a measure she has considered “essential” to “ease” the crisis situation of the autonomous city and “guarantee care.” Rego specified that there are 1,478 migrant minors who are identified and in protection centers in the autonomous city, in addition to the 1,200 minors that the Government estimates remain to be registered.

One of the consequences of the situation that Ceuta has been experiencing since the massive arrival of migrants from Morocco in July is the sexual attacks on young people who arrived in this wave, including nine minors.

The restart of the political course has clearly shown a new deep rift within the coalition Government, adding to the already existing one regarding the response the Government must give to Morocco concerning its responsibility for the massive assault on July 30 and 31. The Minister of Culture and spokesperson for Sumar, Ernest Urtasun, staged this midday the direct clash of his party with the socialist wing of the Government over the management of the migration crisis in Ceuta. While the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has flatly ruled out the option of transferring the migrants who remain in the autonomous city to the Peninsula, the junior coalition partner has described this measure as “urgent” and “essential.”

Pedro Sánchez has not missed the opportunity to return some of the attacks that the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso has launched at him during this summer and has found in the controversy over the luxury penthouse of the president of the Community of Madrid the most favorable flank to return to political combat. The difficulties of the regional Government to close a controversy that continues to accumulate questions have allowed him to go on the counterattack, accusing Ayuso of having wanted to buy a “big penthouse with the money of the Madrilenians” and that “she has been caught.”

Italy has decided to extend border controls for another 15 days on passengers arriving by plane and ship from Spain. The temporary suspension of Schengen between the two countries, introduced last August 1 due to the Ceuta migration crisis, was set to expire this Monday, August 31, but Giorgia Meloni’s government has ultimately chosen to maintain the measure until September 15. The initial intention of the Executive was to extend the controls for another month, but a two-week extension was finally chosen for technical reasons.

The PP has been quick to react to Pedro Sánchez’s words, who has once again exempted Morocco from the Ceuta crisis. The deputy secretary Juan Bravo has accused the Prime Minister of “surrender” to the neighboring country after Sánchez not only absolved Morocco of responsibility but also praised Rabat’s actions despite more than 70,000 immigrants entering through the border.

Moments of high tension at the gates of the Loma Colmenar Enclosure, one of the new reception centers that the Government has set up to accommodate the immigrants who remain on the streets of Ceuta. After more than a week during which a long line, with hundreds of people, waited their turn to occupy a bed, the parking lot doors were opened this Monday to accommodate more immigrants, causing a huge commotion in the area.

Imad Maarmi, a 35-year-old Algerian, is in a limbo called the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) of Ceuta. After being intercepted up to 12 times by the Civil Guard or the Moroccan Navy when trying to swim across the Tarajal border breakwater, he managed to set foot on the shore of the autonomous city last July 10. Three weeks before the mass crossing. At that time, the CETI was not yet overcrowded. Nor was Ceuta in chaos.

It is the third week that I have to talk about Ceuta and I would like not to have to do it again for a long time. Not because I have nothing to say about Ceuta, a city I have visited on several occasions, but because it would be a sign that the very serious crisis this city is experiencing…