Broken crying and hug without barriers: the most moving video of the migrant rush between Ceuta and Spain

The image of the embrace between a Red Cross worker and migrant What he swam to Ceuta goes around the world.

Amid the massive influx of families, minors and young people from Morocco and sub-Saharan countries to the Spanish enclave, the cameras showed how a lifeguard provides water and holds the young man in his arms, exhausted and obviously shocked after crossing Moroccan territory to Spain.

Another video showed the moment the migrant reached the shore, where he was treated by soldiers and Red Cross rescuers. Many migrants arrive at the beach with obvious symptoms of having been cold after a long time in the water, and once they warm themselves in the sand or are treated by the Red Cross, they are driven to the neighboring border with Morocco.

The one with the lifeguard and the young man This is not the only emotional image left by the two dramatic days of Monday and Tuesday., in which around 8,000 migrants, including 1500 miners, entered the enclave by swimming or climbing the fence.

Another viral image, released by the Spanish Civil Guard, was of a a diver who saves a baby of a few days from the water.

The military also released photos showing troops in Ceuta waters carrying out rescue work for “Save the lives of dozens of minors”, some of whom are newborns, who are trying to access the Spanish city with their families. “Civil guards from GEAS and ARS save the lives of dozens of minors who arrived in Ceuta by sea with their families“Said the Civil Guard on its official Twitter account.

Also, a volunteer of the Spanish Red Cross saved a baby’s life, only three weeks old, who was caught in the tumult of people who were next to the fence of the Ceuta border breakwater waiting to enter the Spanish Autonomous City.

Tuesday, Spain has deployed troops and armored vehicles to Ceuta to patrol the border with Morocco. Soldiers and police also used batons to drive migrants away from the beach and threw smoke bombs to deter others from crossing.

Wednesday, however, migratory pressure has decreased, with just a few dozens of immigrants try to reach Spanish territory by swimming. Of the total number of immigrants who managed to reach Ceuta, some 4,800 have already returned to Morocco, according to data offered today by the Spanish chief executive, Pedro Sanchez, at the Congress of Deputies.

At least one person drowned while trying to cross.

This Wednesday there are hardly any at the border immigrants who tried to swim to Ceuta or in a small boat, and that they were intercepted by the three Spanish Civil Guard ships patrolling the area.

After picking them up at sea, officers take them to the beach, where they are accompanied to return to Morocco.

On the beach, next to the civil guard, military units remain deployed and also collaborate to bring immigrants, the majority of men and young people returning to the neighboring country.

With those who are forced to return, several dozen young people who have entered illegally in recent days are piling up at the border and that they want to return voluntarily to their country because they have no place to sleep or eat in Ceuta, according to the soldiers who treat them at the border.

The Spanish government mobilized the army yesterday and warned Morocco that it would defend the territorial integrity of its borders “by all means”, after the unprecedented situation that was experienced yesterday in the Spanish city of North Africa in front of the passivity of the Moroccan gendarmerie.

The massive arrival of Moroccan immigrants in Ceuta was the most recent and most serious episode of the diplomatic crisis between Spain and Morocco opened by the admission a few weeks ago in a Spanish hospital of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, sick with coronavirus.

Ceuta, with a population of 80,000 inhabitants, is located in the extreme north of Morocco, opposite Gibraltar. With another Spanish enclave, Melilla, has long been a magnet for African immigrants looking for a better life in Europe. Morocco claims the two territories.

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