Interior will install new 'inverted combs' on the Melilla fence and will improve the anti-riot material

• Borders They frustrate another attempt to jump to the Melilla fence of a thousand migrants

• Immigration Melilla suffers the biggest jump to the fence in its history: 2,500 immigrants of which almost 500 manage to pass

In a few weeks, the Melilla fence will be an infrastructure that is less accessible to massive attempts to reach

.

After four attempts in six days -one of them the most massive in history with 2,500 stampeding migrants trying to reach Europe- the

has accelerated its plan to finish shielding the border perimeter and also to provide more means to agents who guard it.

The last 3.5 kilometers of the fence that were unprotected - the area established between

and

, where he currently is - will have 'inverted combs' (a metallic structure of semicircular bars crowning the fence), as the rest of the wall.

The objective of these elements is to make the jump difficult.

In addition, state-of-the-art riot gear will be assigned to officers working on the infrastructure after recent events - where "unusual" violence by Africans, who were heavily armed with sharp hooks and other objects and left 45 injured between agents and migrants - have found that the equipment they currently have is insufficient.

So serious were the incidents recorded at the border crossing that even Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska traveled to the autonomous city over the weekend.

Despite how complicated it is to make assumptions about the intentions that may be behind these massive correlative jumps, there are two variables that have been able to influence the last four attempts.

The first of these must be found in the conviction of the migrants, aware of the reinforcement of security at the fence with the placement of inverted combs, that these last few weeks were their last chance to reach Europe with some ease.

The second goes in another direction and rests on a possible "pressure measure" by

towards Spain, as sources consulted by this newspaper pointed out.

Concern in the Government

It must be remembered that the Alaouite kingdom still does not have an ambassador in Madrid after

decided to call

for consultations at the height of the crisis due to the reception in Spain of the leader of

,

, and coinciding with the entry mass of thousands of migrants in

in May of last year.

Be that as it may, the truth is that the massive jumps - the last one, early yesterday morning with 1,000 men heading towards the fence - have worried the Government, which does not want the border perimeter to be affected again by incidents of this deep, much less face a new migration crisis like last spring.

On Tuesday, the alarms went off again when more than a thousand people tested the coordination between the State Security Forces and Bodies and Morocco with another entry attempt that was added to those registered last week, when 3,800 migrants wanted access the autonomous city in two rounds violating the border perimeter.

Of the 1,000 men who at 06:00 a.m. were detected by the Civil Guard's anti-intrusion device, 400 reached the fence although none managed to enter Spain, as sources from the Government Delegation specified.

According to the Government Delegation, the Moroccan security forces "have been violently harassed" but their "perfect coordination and impeccable performance" made it possible to contain the jump to the fence.

The extensive police device established by the Civil Guard, in collaboration with the National Police -more numerous than the one currently in place, where custody corresponds to 24 agents-, remained at the foot of the fence in all the areas of action of the perimeter , achieving with this coordination the neutralization of the jump in its entirety.

The batch of jumps began last day 2 when 2,500 immigrants wanted to enter Spain and 491 succeeded.

Twenty-four hours later there were 1,200 who tried to jump and 380 achieved their goal;

and on day 4, a thousand migrants tried, although none entered.

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