Ceuta Crisis: Hundreds of Illegal Migrants Demand Asylum Benefits
“Pay us to rape your women and kill your men!”
Hundreds of illegal migrants that stormed Ceuta staged a protest Sunday demanding the Spanish government grant them immediate asylum benefits including – but not limited to – food, shelter, medical treatment, and freedom of movement to mainland Spain and beyond to the rest of Europe.
Per Spanish outlets, the protest was staged by about 200 migrants from the broader group encamped at El Trampolín beach — now marred with over 80 makeshift hubs made of garbage. The migrants, mostly composed of Moroccan and Subsaharan nationals, affirmed that they do not want to return to their respective countries of origin and thus demand asylum protections in Spain and a chance to travel to mainland Europe.
Second wave of Ceuta invasion blocked as armed police put end to migrant raid
Hundreds of migrants fighting age Islamic savages have been prevented from breaching the border into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta.
Moroccan riot police were stationed at the frontier as large crowds assembled in the nearby town of Castillejos, responding to social media appeals urging another surge.
Those who tried to cross were detained and transported away on buses by officers.
The confrontation came just a fortnight after the catastrophic events of July 30, when approximately 72,000 people flooded across the border in what has been called the single largest illegal influx into the European Union.
That earlier crossing claimed at least 88 lives, with victims either drowning or being crushed in the chaos.
While most were subsequently sent back to Morocco, a number remain in the exclave.
Video footage captured crowds of people sprinting towards the border crossing in Castillejos, but Moroccan reinforcements – including armoured vehicles and a surveillance helicopter – ensured no one made it through.
Officers charged at the group and hemmed them in roughly three kilometres from the exclave.
The first attempts began at around 6am today.
The local outlet El Faro de Ceuta reports that the protest started after an unspecified amount of Moroccan nationals had their asylum requests denied at temporary migrant shelters. According to the outlet, the migrants attempted to march towards downtown Ceuta but their efforts were contained by military officials.
On the Spanish side, army troops and armoured vehicles were also positioned along the frontier. Continue reading The Invasion of Ceuta
