Acid Attack on Spanish Border Guards as Migrants Storm Ceuta Fence

The usually calm Benzú access became the scene of a real battlefield on Friday, August 30, 2019, at seven o’clock in the morning. Indeed, the two civil guards who were at the border crossing were surprised by nearly two hundred migrants who had started attacking the fence. The latter broke down the door and gained access inside, reports Ok Diario.

"They were armed with stones and sticks, as shown in some photographs taken by the agents themselves after the event," indicates the same media. A few minutes after the arrival of eleven reinforcement agents, six of them were injured. According to sources from the Army Institute, some presented burns caused by the impact of bottles filled with sulfuric acid from batteries, feces, earth and "blood". It is, in particular, the blood of animals used by the migrants to impress the agents, making them believe that they were injured.

What shocked the Spanish side is the absence of Moroccan police surveillance. The Benzú crossing is indeed located in a beach area divided, one part on Spanish territory and the other Moroccan. However, during this migrant assault, the Moroccans were apparently totally absent.

The guards of the Spanish territorial service confided to the same media that there is always police surveillance from the neighboring country because "it is one of the hot spots" of the assaults. However, they note that at the time of the Friday assault, "there was no patrol on the Moroccan side. "And to think that we recently gave them money," laments one of the agents who thus confided to Ok Diario. The Moroccan authorities, for their part, claim to have stopped the access to the border of 400 migrants and claim to know nothing about these 155 people.

It should be recalled that for border control, Spain has granted 32 million in aid to Morocco, for the acquisition of all-terrain vehicles to ensure patrols, notes the same source.