Spain Accuses Morocco of Lax Border Control as Migrants Storm Melilla

The assault of sub-Saharan migrants on Melilla last Wednesday is the second major migration crisis after the one that occurred in Ceuta last May, following the entry into Spain a month earlier of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, causing a serious diplomatic crisis between Spain and Morocco.

According to the intelligence reports accessed by El Español, Morocco has ceased in recent weeks to control the sub-Saharan migrant camps located on the other side of the border, whereas it usually carried out surveillance actions in the areas close to the border to sometimes move these migrants southward.

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The intelligence services also note that these migrants have changed their method and approach. Unlike previous times when they carried out their attempt in groups of 200, this is the first time they have stormed the border "all at once" and in broad daylight, they say, specifying that they entered through the only section of the fence that is not monitored by agents.

According to the Government Delegation, 2,000 sub-Saharan migrants from Morocco, armed with hooks and vices under their shoes, stormed the fence on Wednesday, between 9:30 a.m. and 9:40 a.m., in just ten minutes. The law enforcement officers deployed on both sides of the border failed to push them back. 50 of them are still recovering in the hospital after suffering violent attacks from these migrants.