Hundreds of Migrants Enter Spanish Enclave Ceuta from Morocco, Overwhelming Border Guards

On the side of the autonomous city, only two police officers were present on the spot and they were unable to do anything in the face of the hundreds of illegal immigrants who threw stones, sulfuric acid and excrement at them. They had also covered themselves in blood to simulate injuries.

Reinforcement police officers were then called in to try to block the passage, but in vain. Several dozen of them had to be admitted to migrant centers pending their transfer to other cities on the peninsula, and that a proper political asylum application be filed.

Voices have been raised within the police and politicians of the autonomous city to denounce this assault which, according to them, was encouraged by the Moroccan authorities. They claim that on that day, no police or Moroccan auxiliary forces were present on site to block the passage.

A police representative had even become angry, recalling that the Kingdom had very recently received 30 million euros from the European Union for the acquisition of equipment and materials (4x4 vehicles, supply vehicles, ...) precisely to put an end to repeated migrant attacks.

Other rumors even speak of a lesson, or even a punishment, from Morocco whose authorities, it is said, did not appreciate that Moroccans residing abroad (MREs) were sometimes blocked for several days with their transit vehicle in Algeciras, with women and children, the Spanish authorities demanding a tax of 31% of the total price of the car. These amounts sometimes exceeded 20,000 euros.

In the past, Morocco had been accused of punishing Spain by opening the floodgates of illegal immigration. A few years ago, Spanish police had the audacity to check the boat belonging to King Mohammed VI. A few days later, several thousand migrants had, as if by magic, managed to reach Spain...