Collapse at the Ceuta border due to the key days of Operation Crossing the Strait

• Migrations The Operation Crossing the Strait with Morocco begins: more than three million travelers are expected until September

Since this Friday afternoon, coinciding with the first day of July, the Operation Crossing the Strait (OPE) as it passes through Ceuta has notably increased the number of vehicles and people who have embarked from

to the city of

to cross the border with

.

Thousands of people and hundreds of vehicles, after traveling the distance from the port when leaving the ferry, have to wait in queues of up to 9 hours on the esplanade set up in the

neighborhood as a parking lot to avoid traffic jams on the access road to the

Customs

.

These people, mostly Moroccan emigrants from various European countries who cross the Iberian Peninsula every year to spend the summer holidays in their native country.

Ceuta residents of the city who also cross to visit their relatives on the other side or to spend the weekend in the neighboring country are also mixed.

This year,

, the Passover of the sacrifice, coincides with the beginning of the summer holidays.

so the traffic figures may skyrocket in the coming hours.

Travelers after the long journey do not understand how when they arrive in

they find themselves stuck in the pocket, a place that does not offer basic services such as a simple store or point where

buy cold drinks

or hot, food or with adequate services to welcome so many people with dignity.

The

has also not made an appearance so far, something that the travelers themselves miss.

In the return device they have always been activated in the area to provide social and health service to the organized device.

The neighbors near the esplanade, annoyed by the noise of the horns, despite the lack of rest in the face of noise and demonstrations, also come down to offer help and even offer them their houses so that they can use the toilets, since only there are enabled

8 cabins and as confirmed by the users themselves, they are not even clean.

Faced with this situation, protests have also arisen spontaneously, since there are families with young children who are desperate.

The neighbors have been able to understand the situation and have come to help these people.

Well-informed sources confirm to this medium that the delays are occurring due to the "meticulous" controls by the Moroccan customs authorities and for ensuring that the sanitary measures imposed by the Alawite government are scrupulously complied with;

that is, check the Covid passports of each traveler at the health control point at the

Meanwhile, the political parties in opposition to the Vivas government have come out to denounce this situation.

The different formations have described

"disaster" and "embarrassment"

the management of Operation Crossing the Strait

after seeing in situ the pocketing area of ​​Loma Colmenar.

They denounce the lack of health care, social services, and "with only the appearance of the Police when that threatened to overflow and become an even more serious problem", lamented the deputy of the

Something that since training they do not understand because, they say, they have had two years to prepare due to the stoppage due to the pandemic.

The

of Ceuta has come forward to demand that

the City

to authorize “urgently” the installation of points of sale for food

beverages, as well as denouncing the lack of foresight of the local Executive despite the figures that the

pointed out after two years in white .

From the Government Delegation they value what is happening positively, since they point out that in the first phase of the

the arrival of vehicles to the autonomous city has increased by 45%, although they announce that the

, the operational center in charge of the management of the

is taking measures such as the opening of new emergency bagging areas in the extension of the Poniente dock, in the port of

, as stated in the protocol of the

Provincial Plan, the activation of extra resources by all the operating groups, as well as the adaptation of the schedules and slots of the different lanes and at the request of the operation, are part of the decisions that are being made in real time to face the challenges of this

From the communication office of

, the central government agency that manages health, it assures that the Emergency Coordination Center has received several calls and that two ambulances have had to travel to the esplanade of the bagging to attend to some people who have required help. medical.

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