The city of Ceuta is trying to return to normality after the irregular entry last Thursday of more than 50,000 people from Morocco and, although most of them have returned to their country, the Security Forces and the Army are carrying out controls in the streets to ensure that all of them leave the city. The Beni-Enzar crossing, the only one operational in Melilla, marks 24 hours since its reopening after a day and a half closure due to the migratory crisis that has forced the Ministry of the Interior to reinforce the Civil Guard and National Police forces so that the border with Morocco returns to normal. After an attempted entry, the military have slowed down the transit. The president of VOX, Santiago Abascal, visits Ceuta after having directly held the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, responsible for last Thursday’s migratory crisis.
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EDITORIAL
Firmness and unity in the face of Morocco’s challenge
The arrival of 50,000 people to Ceuta from Morocco amid the passivity of the authorities of that country has been an unacceptable assault on Spanish sovereignty that deserves a firm and united response. The human toll is tragic: 67 dead. The vast majority of those who irregularly crossed the border in the previous days have already left, and this speed in resolving the crisis is the good news of events that have exposed the vulnerability of national borders to the coercion of a neighbor and an alarming division in Europe. Anticipation failed in the face of an uncontrolled influx of immigrants that the Government did not foresee and was not prepared for. The EU also failed, where some governments took the opportunity to launch reproaches at a partner under maximum tension, instead of showing solidarity in the face of what is an attack on the entire largest democratic bloc in the world.
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MIGRATORY CRISIS
From the fires to the border: the three days in which Marlaska chained two state crises
Last Wednesday, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, traveled to the advanced command post installed in Navalcarnero, 34 kilometers southwest of Madrid. His intention was to closely follow the firefighting efforts that had been ravaging thousands of hectares of forest in Madrid and Ávila for days and had made the one affecting this Castilian-Leonese province the most serious in history. However, for the first time in days, the news arriving was hopeful. There was talk of “technically stabilized” fires, flame fronts that had not advanced for more than 48 hours, and above all, the possibility of allowing thousands of people still evacuated to return home. Good news after difficult days, which also included judicial clouds, such as the indictment in the Leire Díez case of one of her trusted men, Leonardo Marcos, former director general of the Civil Guard.
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They slow down transit at the Melilla border for security after an attempted entry
The State security forces have slowed down transit at the Melilla land border, first reducing it to a single lane and shortly after to two, as a security measure after detecting an attempted irregular entry of migrants at the fence. Sources from the Government Delegation in Melilla have reported that they adopted this measure late at night, and temporarily, “in order to guarantee the proper development of the operation” and for “exclusively security” reasons.
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This has meant slower transit at the Beni-Enzar border crossing, which since its reopening at 10:30 a.m. had been gradually in batches of 20 vehicles and is now reduced to only two simultaneously to prevent travelers from accumulating in the security area and to ensure it is clear in case of an attempted entry of migrants. The pedestrian crossing, which has also been affected by this measure, is now operating in both directions “given the evolution of the situation,” according to the Government Delegation. (EFE)
Migratory crisis
The Ceuta crisis aligns the European right against Sánchez
A new ghost is roaming Europe and this time it is called immigration. Riding it is the rampant right-wing shift of the continent. And before it, Pedro Sánchez, the only social democrat in charge of one of the big countries of the 27, finds himself increasingly alone, as the Ceuta crisis with its images of a human wave that have impressed the whole planet has shown. But, very much in his style, the Spanish president does not shy away from the battle. As proof, the letter he sent this Saturday to Brussels denouncing the “selfishness” of some of his European partners.
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Ceuta crisis
The message of the exodus: “The border is open and you can cross without papers”
“If you see these stairs, your dream will have come true.” This is the message spread this week on TikTok, before being deleted forever, showing a video with images of Ceuta. Morocco has closely followed the exodus of tens of thousands of young people encouraged from social networks by anonymous voices. “I am desperate, I can’t find my place in Morocco. There is no place here for me. The messages I received on the screen led me to Ceuta, but I had to return,” confessed Ahmed, a 23-year-old unemployed young man, this Saturday in Castillejos. Around noon on Thursday, the echo of the posts calling him to go to Ceuta resounded on social networks. “The Spanish border is open and you can cross without papers,” was the general slogan received by Ahmed and that mobilized a youth tide on the roads of the northern Maghreb country in an unprecedented migratory avalanche.
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Migratory crisis
The three days of horror that cornered Ceuta
The coasts of Ceuta and Morocco have left dozens of corpses in a few days for the sad cemetery of the Mediterranean Sea. Ceuta sounded the alarm bells on July 27, after a week in which its beaches had bathers by day and immigrants at dawn. The night crossings of the inflatables, a few kilometers and many hours of swimming, had already left more than 1,000 people on the sand, castaways of misery, violence, and lack of freedoms. Immigrants kissed Spanish soil and entered seeking help. At that time, there was talk of four dead in seven days. The figures would be as confusing as merciless from then on. On Thursday the 30th, pandemonium broke out: more than 60,000 people entered.
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Good morning. The city of Ceuta is trying to return to normality after the irregular entry last Thursday of more than 50,000 people from Morocco and, although most of whom have returned to their country, the Security Forces and the Army are carrying out controls in the streets to ensure that all of them leave the city. The Beni-Enzar crossing, the only one operational in Melilla, marks 24 hours since its reopening after a day and a half closure due to the migratory crisis suffered by the autonomous city and that has forced the Ministry of the Interior to reinforce the Civil Guard and National Police forces so that the border with Morocco returns to normal. The president of VOX, Santiago Abascal, visits Ceuta today after having directly held the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, responsible for last Thursday’s migratory crisis.
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