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Africa North
Violence as Migrants Storm Morocco-Spain Border Fence
2018-07-27
A regular occurrence. Reportedly they are caught pretty quickly, as apparently there aren't that many places to hide in the enclave.
[AnNahar] Some 400 migrants colonists from sub-Saharan Africa reached Spain Thursday after storming a double barrier between Morocco and the Spanish territory of Ceuta, with some attacking security forces with quicklime, police said.

The scramble over the barrier is the biggest in Ceuta since February 2017, when more than 850 migrants colonists entered the overseas territory over four days.

It comes as Spain becomes the number one destination for migrants colonists crossing the Mediterranean by boat, surpassing Italia with 19,586 arrivals so far this year, according to the International Organization for Migration.

A front man for the Guardia Civil police force in Ceuta told AFP the migrants colonists managed to climb over the double barrier, which is covered in small blades, early on Thursday morning.

They scrambled over "all of a sudden, with much violence," and some attacked police with quicklime they had in tubes and bottles.

As a result, "more than a dozen police" were maimed, four of whom had to go to hospital for burns in the face and arms.

Isabel Brasero, spokeswoman for the Red Thingy, said they had to attend to 30 migrants colonists with injuries, none serious.

Eleven of them were taken to hospital for stitches and possible fractures, she added.

She said that after they had climbed over the barrier, they ran to the centre that houses migrants colonists once they arrive in Spanish territory.

Ceuta and Melilla, another Spanish territory on Morocco's northern border, have the EU's only land borders with Africa, which is why many migrants colonists try to reach them.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Is the violence a sign that it's harder to get in now?

No. They’ve been doing this irregularly for some time, Shake. Wikioedia has an article here. We have plenty of reports of this kind of thing in the archives.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-07-27 13:47  

#6  Crazy. Hope this doesn't happen on other borders. Is the violence a sign that it's harder to get in now?
Posted by: Shake   2018-07-27 13:24  

#5  Your first act in attempting asylum or refugee status is to violently storm the outpost barrier? Shoot them
Posted by: Frank G   2018-07-27 08:33  

#4   from sub-Saharan Africa that takes in about 2/3 of the African continent.

They can't make a go of it anywhere there? They have to invade a whole nother continent?

YMMV but I think that says a lot that I probably shouldn't voice.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-07-27 07:51  

#3  How did any of the invaders survive the claymores?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-07-27 07:18  

#2  As long as the Spanish hold Ceuta then they should STFU about the Rock
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2018-07-27 06:35  

#1  Interesting. I had never wandered google sat maps in Ceuta before. Quite a bit of area is shaded and blurred like extreme dark clouds. It is obviously the Spanish counterpart for Britain's Gibraltar. Both control access to/from the Med.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-07-27 00:47  

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