The migrants registered by social entities and public bodies in Ceuta far exceed the figures from the Interior Ministry.
The Government insists on an approximate calculation of 2,000, but just on Trampoline beach alone, more rations are being handed out every day to feed the newly arrived.
"That's it, there are no more. Again," confirms a Red Cross worker on the Trampolín beach in Ceuta. She hands over the last white plastic bag with food and water and waves her arms towards the rest of the migrants crowded in a chaotic queue to receive their ration and who will not eat today. "I'm sorry, there are no more," she excuses herself, raising her arms in a sign of absence.
This Thursday, the organization has delivered more than 2,500 rations, 500 more than the previous days, and they remain insufficient. In this stretch of coast, both the police guarding it and humanitarian workers state that there are over 2,000 people, mostly Sub-Saharan Africans. A figure that disputes those given by the Ministry of the Interior, which on Tuesday assured that of the 72,000 people who entered Ceuta, 70,000 had already returned to Morocco, so there would be around 2,000 left in the city.
A figure that Interior sources confirm they maintain, because they do not have other "reliable data" that allows them to change it, although they underline its estimative nature.
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