• Ceuta.The Government begins to withdraw the concertinas at the Ceuta fence
  • Hemeroteca.The PSOE installed in 2005 bayonets and concertinas in Ceuta and Melilla
  • Graphic: This was the three-dimensional serge

The Ministry of Interior has already begun work to remove the three-dimensional barge or third border fence of Melilla , the network of steel cables located in the intermediate area of ​​the perimeter, which was installed by the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2006.

Sources of the Government Delegation in Melilla have confirmed on Tuesday to Efe that the three-dimensional serge is already retiring and the works are framed in the works of modernization of the border between Spain and Morocco in the autonomous city that the minister of the months announced Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

These modernization works are being carried out progressively, they have added the same sources, which have not specified more details about the perimeter points where the three-dimensional tow is being made, 14 years after its installation.

The Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC) has also said that it is aware that work is being carried out to remove this third fence between the two that initially had the border perimeter.

To questions from journalists after having a meeting with the president of the Autonomous City, Eduardo de Castro , the general secretary of AUGC Melilla, Sergio Márquez , recalled that the Interior Ministry announced in 2018 that it would withdraw the concertinas from the fences Ceuta and Melilla borders.

However, he has specified that in Melilla there are "very few sections" of the fence that have concertina and that is why there was talk of removing the tow.

During his visit to Melilla in March of last year, Grande-Marlaska said that the elimination of the three-dimensional rope was among the modifications that the Interior Ministry wanted to make in the perimeter to achieve a safer, but also more human border.

"They are not absolutely antagonistic concepts, but must be intimately united," said the minister, who insisted that "borders, to be safe, do not have to use cruel means and less in the 21st century, which is the century of technologies and advancement ".

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