Around 3000 migrants swim to Spanish enclave Ceuta in one day as Morocco leaves border unguarded in diplomatic row
‘SCARED’ Spanish locals have locked themselves indoors and Covid jabs have been suspended as the army rounds up migrants desperately fleeing Morocco.
By Tuesday morning some 6,000 people in total had crossed the border into Ceuta since the first arrivals began early Monday, the Spanish government said, including 1,500 thought to be teenagers. Video showed people climbing the rocky wall of the breakwaters and running across the Tarajal beach, in the south-eastern end of the city.
"Spain's borders are the European Union's borders," European Council chief Charles Michel tweeted in Spanish, as he voiced solidarity with Madrid. Spain’s Interior Ministry said it would increase the security presence in the area and said both countries had recently agreed anyone illegally entering Ceuta would be returned.
It emerged that Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali arrived in northern Spain in mid-April and is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.