Moving image of the diver and a baby in Ceuta

The images of the Thousands of people trying to reach Spain via Ceuta since Monday have been blurred in the media and on the internet as quickly as the escalating diplomatic tension between Spain and Morocco. Among them stands out the image of a Spanish Civil Guard diver rescuing a baby which had a special impact on his emotionality.

According to local media, the baby rescued from the water is barely two months old and healthy. The diver’s name is Juan Francisco and he is a member of the Special Unit for Underwater Activities in Ceuta. In the picture you can see how he holds the baby in pajamas, helped by a life jacket.

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Civil Guards of the #GEAS and the #ARS save the lives of dozens of miners who came #Ceuta by sea with their families. pic.twitter.com/MyzOaB4hjR

– Civil Guard 🇪🇸 (@guardiacivil) May 18, 2021

Through social media, the Spanish Civil Guard is in charge of broadcasting the scenes of the rescue operations that are carried out in the waters of Ceuta “To save the lives of dozens of minors”. Every day, they publish a series of photos in which those of the rescued minors stand out. In some cases, like the image of the diver and the baby, these are newborns or very young babies.

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The diver’s rescue of the two-month-old baby was captured and publicized, but it wasn’t the only one in recent days. A Red Cross volunteer saves life of three-week-old baby, whose mother held him in her arms and was taken from the crowd of people standing by the fence of the border breakwater. The volunteer managed to grab the child through a hole in the fence while the mother waited in a long line to enter, according to humanitarian organization EFE.

Images of babies, boys and girls are quickly touring the world as they reflect the harsher side of the migration crisis, reminiscent of the photo of the little Syrian boy found on a beach in Greece after escaping with his family from Syria. that shocked the world in 2015.

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The events in Ceuta reflect the drama of the migration crisis but also show the diplomatic tension between Spain and Morocco. Thus, it is said that the Moroccan government may have relaxed border controls in retaliation after the Spanish government allowed militia leader Brahim Ghali to seek treatment in a hospital in that country.

Ghali heads the Polisario Front which fights for the independence of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in 1975. Last month he was hospitalized in the Spanish town of Logroño and the Moroccan government, which demands international recognition of its sovereignty over the said territory. , he warned that the event would have “consequences”.

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