Ceuta Residents Jailed for Shooting Moroccan Teen During Migration Crisis

The events took place on May 18, 2021, during the migration crisis caused by the massive entry of about 12,000 Moroccan migrants, mostly minors, into the autonomous city of Ceuta. That day, the two convicted, aged 34 and 31, decided to "carry out acts of retaliation and revenge against a group of unaccompanied foreign minors wandering the city. For the prosecution, the defendants acted "with a total lack of humanity and empathy".

The two convicted positioned themselves on the balcony of a house located in the center of the city, and shot at the group of migrants with a 5.5 caliber rifle belonging to one of them. They took care to record a video of the assault with their mobile phone "while expressing expressions of insult and mockery", thus ignoring "the most elementary principles of solidarity, tolerance and coexistence", details the prosecution.

The shot hit a minor of Moroccan origin who had to be transferred to the emergency room to receive adequate care. The convicted were prosecuted for the crimes of incitement to hatred and assault with dangerous weapons and instruments. The public prosecutor had requested 9 years in prison against them, but the judge sentenced them to one year in prison due to a mitigating circumstance.

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