Replay: EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration addresses Ceuta incident
Rewatch the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner's press conference as he addresses the mass crossing of migrants to Ceuta, amid talks between the bloc's internal ministers.
The European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, addressed a press conference regarding the mass crossing of migrants into Ceuta. This event occurred amid talks between the European Union's internal ministers.
Nearly 50,000 migrants from Morocco had illegally entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on July 30. Following this crisis, interior ministers from the EU's 27 member states were summoned to a videoconference to draw lessons from the incident.
The Spanish government has denied allegations that it ignored warnings from its intelligence service about the mass arrival of migrants in Ceuta. According to the government, no intelligence reports had been received warning of a migration crisis on this scale. In Ceuta, protesters and counterprotesters eventually dispersed without requiring significant police intervention.
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