• Immigration: A total of 155 migrants enter Ceuta crossing their double fence in the first group raid in a year
  • Reactions.PP, Citizens and Vox support the civil guards wounded in Ceuta and ask for more means to protect the border

Just on Friday in the area of Benzú , in Ceuta , border between the autonomous city and Morocco , when a group of 200 sub-Saharan immigrants approached the place, raided the Moroccan fence and demolished access to Spain that is installed on the fence that Separate both countries. At 7.20 hours there was a massive assault that resulted in the irregular access of 155 men and the hot expulsion of at least eight others.

Immigrants, of sub-Saharan origin, forced from Morocco the entrance gate of the Spanish border post where the Civil Guard tried to repel them using tear gas. Even the agents maintained a melee with the young people who wanted to enter the force. The result was that the border post was visibly damaged - as seen in the video that accompanies this information - and civil guards and some migrants had to be taken care of by the health services.

Eight of the immigrants perched on the fence and stayed there for more than two hours. From the ground, the Civil Guard agents tried to dissuade them from moving on and finally used a crane-basket to climb to pick them up one by one.

Once in Spanish territory, the eight were returned hot and handed over to the Moroccan police in application of the "border rejection" figure.

As the immigrants themselves explained, the entry into Spain had been prepared for five months. They took advantage of the dense fog that covered the area yesterday morning to avoid being detected by the heat chambers with which the Civil Guard monitors the 8.2 kilometers of border.

They denounce "check out" at the border

Eleven guards were injured during the assault on the border fence and required medical attention, although there were no serious cases. The agents had "slight bruises on arms, legs and hands" and one of them had been hit with "some type of abrasive fluid" in the eyes.

Several immigrants, most of them very young, also had to be treated for minor injuries. They arrived at the Immigrant Temporary Stay Center (CETI), some on the run and others transferred by the Red Cross .

The associations of civil guards denounced the "lack of protection" with which in their opinion the agents assigned to the border with Morocco have to work. The representatives of the guards repeatedly call for an increase in human and material resources to ensure the mission that all governments, whatever they may be, entrust them: secure the border and prevent illegal entry into Spain of people and goods.

Ceuta overshadows Open Arms

The government was assaulted yesterday on the assault on the fence of Ceuta just one day after the harsh debate in Congress over the crisis of the Open Arms this summer, in which virtually all parties beat the Executive for their pitfalls and contradictions.

A year ago the Government had to face a similar crisis as soon as Pedro Sánchez arrived in La Moncloa . Having used hot returns against Mariano Rajoy when he was in opposition and having exploited the Aquarius episode to the fullest - ministers receiving the ship in the port of Valencia -, in August Sanchez decided to expel dozens of immigrants who had entered irregularly into Ceuta. To this end, the Government applied a treaty with Morocco of 1992 that had hardly been used until that moment.

Now, the situation is similar. While 15 immigrants from the Open Arms landed in the bay of Algeciras , on the other side of the Strait hundreds of them stormed the border, civil guards were injured, hot returns were produced and the CETI of the autonomous city was saturated above its capacity .

Asked about what happened in La Moncloa, the spokeswoman for the Government, Isabel Celaá, said she did not know him and in particular about the expulsions she was inclined to "think that it has not been so.

Recently, the Government has again announced in related media the withdrawal of the concertinas on the border fences with Morocco. He has already done it on two other occasions, once in June 2018 and once in January of this year. Morocco is building a similar system on its side of the border with EU money that will replace Spanish.

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