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.”
The Ripoll City Council has hired one of the daughters of the town’s mayor, Sílvia Orriols, as an interim local police officer. Orriols herself announced it in the plenary session on Tuesday afternoon and made it clear that she has not “appointed anyone by hand” and that she has “completely abstained from participating in anything related to the process.” “Just as I cannot benefit her with my position, I also cannot prevent her from fulfilling her dream,” she assured.
The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, has described the migratory pressure situation that the autonomous city has been experiencing in recent days as a “national emergency.” “It must be addressed from that perspective, as a national emergency through a decisive, energetic, proportional, forceful, immediate action that is coordinated through a single command” of the Government, he emphasized, adding later that in the last week “1,500 people have entered,” which “means the equivalent of almost 2% of the entire population of Ceuta.”
President Salvador Illa delivered a conference this morning at the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), the country’s chamber of commerce and main business organization, as part of the institutional tour of Southeast Asia. From that forum, he warned of the “discourses of fear towards the different” heard in Catalonia, in allusion to the far-right, and contrasted them with the ethnic and religious diversity that prevails in Singapore.
