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| Hundreds of migrants cross into Spain's Melilla enclave |
| 2021-07-23 |
| [DW] A group of Some 230 The men, who mostly came from sub-Saharan Africa, scaled the 6-meter (20-foot) border fence and rushed into the enclave. Three Spanish coppers and 18 of the In a statement, the Spanish government delegation in Melilla said "a huge influx" of Despite the fact that the border fence was equipped with "anti-intrusion" measures, the men used "hooks" to scale it, the statement read. Video footage posted by local newspaper El Faro de Melilla showed the TENSION BETWEEN MADRID AND RABATT Spain controls two autonomous towns in North Africa: Ceuta on the Strait of Gibraltar and Melilla, 250 kilometers to the east. Both are protected by fences fortified with barbed wire, video cameras and watchtowers. They effectively constitute gateways into the EU on the African continent. Tens of thousands of Africans are currently waiting near Ceuta and Melilla. The rushing of the fence in groups is a common occurrence, but Thursday's incident comes at a time of tension between Morocco and Spain. Two months prior, more than 8,000 people entered Spain's other enclave of Ceuta, when Moroccan guards let them pass, seeminlgy to punish Spain, during a diplomatic disagreement between the two countries. Madrid had angered Morocco by allowing the leader of Western Sahara's independence movement into Spain for treatment for a severe case of COVID-19. Most of the refugees arriving in Melilla, a Spanish exclave in Northern Africa, are Syrians, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... is and Algerians. But no blacks apply for asylum at the border. |
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