Migration crisis in Ceuta: "It's a message sent to the European Union"
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Spanish Guardia Civil officers try to prevent Moroccan migrants from swimming and entering Spanish territory on the border of Morocco and Spain, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Monday, May 17, 2021. AP - Antonio Sempere
By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
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Back on this event which deeply marked the news at the beginning of the week: the surge of some 8,000 migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco, apparently with the complacency of the Sherifian police.
Far from being fortuitous, this influx would have even been orchestrated by Rabat, which provoked the anger of Spain, but also of Brussels with which the tension suddenly rose a notch.
To try to understand the political issues behind this new migratory crisis at the gates of the European Union, Khadija Mohsen-Finan, specialist in the Maghreb and the Arab world is a guest of RFI.
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Khadija Mohsen-Finan
is a political scientist, teacher-researcher at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specialist in the Maghreb and the Arab world.
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