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The scenes of May 2021, when thousands of people swam into Ceuta from Morocco, have been able to be repeated this Christmas, specifically on

and New Year's

. As happened then, more than a thousand young people were mobilized through false messages on social networks that announced the opening of the border by order of

or that the Police would again allow illegal crossing on the beach.

The decisive difference compared to May last year is that if then the Moroccan security forces turned a blind eye and even helped the Moroccans to cross, unleashing a migration crisis, on this occasion the authorities of the Alawite kingdom designed a comprehensive device to contain them, making it clear that Morocco has returned to border cooperation.

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ended with riots and clashes between those who wanted to go to Ceuta

and the more than a thousand agents displaced by the Moroccan Government from all over the country. A statement from the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior warned that the head of Government had given orders to the prefectures of

and

to control and contain people who wanted to approach the

area , even shielding the accesses from the road that bypasses the city and ends at the border crossing, as well as from the road that directly connects customs with the road that comes from

.

After the open investigation to determine the origin of the hoaxes that had spread like wildfire through Facebook and telephone chat groups, the authorities

in Tetouan and Tangier - two men and one woman - accused of spreading false news that put the security of the state at risk.

During the deployment, Moroccan agents identified several hundred people who were forced to return to their places of residence in buses chartered by the Government. The Moroccan security forces thus stopped the massive entry attempt. Only a few isolated groups of Sub-Saharan Africans managed to break the fence without concertinas. Meanwhile, on the Spanish side, the Civil Guard and the National Police remained on alert, supported by a helicopter and very attentive to the events on the other side of the border.

The reasons, among many others, on which Morocco's return to collaboration in the fight against illegal immigration is based is found in the international discredit that was won after the events of May 2021. Two weeks after the serious crisis On 10 June, the

adopted a resolution rejecting Morocco's use of border control and immigration "as political pressure against an EU member state", deploring "in particular, the participation of children, Unaccompanied minors and families at the border crossing to the Spanish city of Ceuta,

and safety at risk ”.

Future commercial area

However, these new massive attempts to cross illegally into Spain must be framed in the context of the pandemic. The closure of the border has hampered the informal economy that supported many Moroccans. Before the Covid-19 restrictions, those who lived in cities bordering Ceuta, such as Castillejos, Rincón and Martil, could cross into the Spanish city every day to work.

Furthermore, many Moroccans continue to aspire to emigrate to Europe, knowing the cases of people who entered in May and were able to

. A Spanish civil servant in Ceuta, who has wanted to remain anonymous, is convinced that “the true effect of the call is produced in the ease that comes from leaving the Peninsula after applying for asylum: they call it an" express visa. " A declaration of intent, 2,600 applications submitted since May and

of the applicants are already in the Peninsula, with many possibilities of remaining as illegal despite the expulsion order.

Not even the development plans for the area, announced by the Kingdom of Morocco, seduce a population suffering from the eternal crisis suffered by the most unequal region of North Africa. The arrival of

and other multinationals scheduled for the summer of this year is not generating the expectations desired by those responsible for boosting the region's economy.

Said

, a bricklayer from the Moroccan city of Castillejos who entered during the crisis, pronounces himself like this about the situation: "Although Morocco wants to develop the area, if it does not help the border to be fluid on both sides and allow our neighbors in Ceuta They

can buy, no matter how many commercial buildings they build, most of the residents

on them. If there are no jobs and opportunities, who will come to buy, the rich of Casablanca? "

Situation of minors

From the crisis of last May, there is still an important unsolved problem: the difficulty of making the minors who arrived alone return to their families.

Ceuta has become a great reception center for boys and girls who entered the city lured by the deception that they could

play a game.

The autonomous city government and the Government Delegation drew up a plan in August last year to expel

in a first batch .

After the denunciation of various human rights and child protection organizations, the Justice paralyzed the extraditions.

Morocco promised to facilitate the return of all its minors and for this it had to send

of each family that claims the return of their children.

To date, the area for minors managed by the city of Ceuta, as the legal guardian of these children, has not received any report from the Moroccan authorities.

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