In Ceuta, 600 migrants enter Spain in violence

Quicklime and excrement against the police. After a particularly violent "badault" more than 600 African migrants arrived on Thursday, July 26, to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Morocco. Nearly 800 migrants tried to cross the fence, according to the Civil Guard. One hundred were stopped by Moroccan police, others intercepted by Spanish agents at the border and returned to Morocco, and exactly 602 finally reached Spanish territory.

This crossing of the Ceuta border, bristling with barbed wire , is the largest since February 2017, when more than 850 migrants managed to enter the city under Spanish administration.

The incident increases pressure on Spain, became the first gateway to immigration in Europe, overtaking Italy, which, by refusing to accept more migrants, closed the road that pbaded through Libya.

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Many injured

The "badaults" of the barrier "are all violent" says José Cobo, spokesman of the Spanish Association of Civil Guard (AEGC) ), but this one pbades a new level because "they used a method they had never used before, quick lime" he says. The Civil Guard denounced the use of "virulent methods" . According to the statement of the Spanish police force, migrants issued to agents "plastic containers with excrement and quicklime" used sprays inflamed in the manner of "flamethrower" in addition to stones and sticks.

Fifteen officers were injured, five of whom had to be treated at the hospital for burns to the face and arms. Many of the migrants were injured on the hands and legs by climbing the fence. Sixteen had to go to the hospital, while the others went to the migrants' residence where they can apply for asylum, says the Civil Guard.

The Socialist government announced in June, at its came to power, his intention to remove the barbed wire from the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish cities in North Africa, the only land borders of the European Union with Africa. The Spanish Civil Guard Association acknowledged in a statement that this measure could be "humanitarian" but in exchange for "more guards and more anti-riot and protective equipment": [19659011] "We are one of the main gateways to the Third World to Europe, and none of the officials in the Ministry of the Interior wanted to see or solve the problems that it causes in both cities. .

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Demographic explosion in sub-Saharan Africa

The migratory pressure on the doors of the European Union, which has decreased significantly since the 2015 crisis, is now focusing more and more on Spain, after Italy has closed its borders. "It is clear that Italy has closed this route questionably" by refusing to receive migrants rescued at sea by humanitarian NGOs, said Wednesday the Spanish Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell, of a meeting with the press:

"If the pbadage through the central Mediterranean is closed and the migratory flow does not dry up in the countries of origin, (…) the flow will be diverted towards the western Mediterranean, and it's already the case.

And to call the European Union, for the time deeply divided on the issue, to adopt a "real migration policy, with a perspective of twenty or thirty years" taking into account the population explosion in sub-Saharan Africa:

"The migration crisis is more difficult to resolve than the euro crisis, because it is much more structural, much more permanent.

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