The police evacuated on Monday the hundreds of migrants who had set up a camp next to the Loma Colmenar reception center, where several hundred people who entered Ceuta illegally have been located for days. This was, along with the Loma Margarita center, one of the first spaces that the Government enabled in the autonomous city to accommodate the immigrants who remained on the street after the massive entry on July 30 and 31.
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At one point in the morning, the agents were forced to intervene with shots in the air to stop clashes between migrants, according to Europa Press. The president of the neighborhood association of Loma Colmenar explained to this newspaper that a confrontation occurred around eight in the morning between migrants after the managers of the center, dependent on the Ministry of Migrations, began to let new migrants in. “There has been a call effect from other points and chaos in which, instead of orderly lines, the law of the strongest prevailed,” explains Rafael García.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, estimated this Monday that there are 3,300 emergency reception places for migrants in Ceuta enabled in the city. The breakdown of these places is distributed in the Loma Colmenar facility, with 1,200, Loma Margarita (1,300), between 500 and 600 due to the expansion of the Temporary Immigrant Stay Center, and another 320 in the Equestrian Center (intended for women and children, according to neighborhood sources).
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After being evacuated, several workers cleaned up the waste left on the street by the migrants. According to the neighborhood association, about 800 people entered the reception center, while the rest of those who were there were dispersed to other points.
