Sánchez insists on the "extraordinary work" of the Moroccan police despite the dozens of deaths and says that the "only responsible" are the mafias

• Immigration Only 16 agents to stop the assault in Melilla that already leaves 27 dead: "Interior does nothing, it's shameful"

• Borders Morocco repels a "violent" assault on the Melilla fence that ends in a tragedy with dozens of deaths

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has insisted this Saturday on praising and defending the "extraordinary work" of the Spanish and Moroccan Police on Friday in the border perimeter of

despite the high number of deaths and injuries caused by the attempted jump to the fence

Officially there are 18 dead, but four Moroccan humanitarian organizations put the figure at 29 dead:

, a figure that Morocco has not yet confirmed.

At the press conference after the Council of Ministers, Sánchez showed his "solidarity" with the

, recalled that several

were injured and said that the "violent assault, and I want to highlight that, which was violent and organized by mafias dedicated to trafficking in human beings" was an "attack on the integrity of Spanish territory".

The president praised the "coordinated work with the Spanish security forces" of the

to "repel the attack."

And thus ended his only reference to Friday's tragedy: "If there is only one person responsible for these data, it is the

that traffic in people."

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