Política

The Supreme Court ruled on July 8 that “hot returns” are not allowed for migrants intercepted at sea who attempt to enter the cities of Ceuta and Melilla by swimming. A few weeks later, the autonomous city has been experiencing a massive influx, for days now, of thousands of migrants, mostly Moroccan, many of them swimming. The Ministry of the Interior rules out that the Alaouite authorities have ceased to carry out their surveillance functions. Yesterday, the 30th, was Throne Day in Morocco.

The Beni Enzar border, the only operational one between Spain and Morocco in Melilla, remains closed, according to the Government delegation in the autonomous city, which has asked the public not to go to the border perimeter in order not to hinder the work of the Security Forces and Corps.

The units in charge of border control in Ceuta have recovered from the water the lifeless bodies of at least 12 people in the last 24 hours. There are already 40 foreigners found dead in Ceuta waters in the attempt to swim across from Morocco so far this year.

After the arrival of thousands of migrants at the Ceuta border, the neighbors took out their phones to record and be able to transmit and process calmly later what was happening at that moment.

The Italian government is considering suspending the Schengen agreement with Spain in response to the migration crisis in Ceuta, according to sources from the Prime Minister’s office on Thursday.

At 25 years old, Fátima has made twenty attempts to swim from Fnideq (Castillejos, northern Morocco) to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. “I don’t care about the risk, I will return,” she says. Like her, hundreds of young people are taking to the sea without Moroccan security preventing it in the largest migration crisis since 2021, about which Rabat maintains a striking silence.

Pedro Sánchez has guaranteed that he will mobilize “all necessary resources” to provide an “immediate response” to the new migratory crisis unleashed in Ceuta, as demanded by the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the first consequence is that the Government announced this afternoon that it will deploy the Army to face the serious situation, after a flood of thousands of people crossed the border from Morocco into Spain.

The new migration crisis unleashed in Ceuta, for which the president of this autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, raised the alarm this Thursday, has immediately turned many eyes towards the authorities of Morocco, after Pedro Sánchez restored political and commercial relations with Algeria last week with his visit to President Abdelmayid Tebun, which marked the end of the 2022 diplomatic clash following the Spanish leader’s shift on the Western Sahara issue.

Thousands of young Moroccans are heading this Thursday to the border between Castillejos, in Morocco, and Ceuta to try to cross the fence that separates the two cities, as confirmed by EFE.

The PP asks the Government to act in the face of the avalanche of immigrant arrivals in Ceuta. The secretary general of the PP, Miguel Tellado, has stated that what is happening in Ceuta is a “full-blown migratory crisis” because “200 people are arriving daily over the past few weeks” and, according to the popular leader, it is “evident that the Government must act in the face of this migratory collapse.”