Morocco deploys hundreds of police and military at the border amid calls for a new mass crossing
Spain, which has increased the number of police and civil guards in the city by 42%, is focusing its efforts on expelling the 5,000 irregular migrants who remain and increasing the presence of agents on the streets.
This Saturday is marked in red on the calendar of those responsible at the Ministry of the Interior, but also on that of the Moroccan authorities. On social media, messages have been circulating for days encouraging people to repeat the scenes experienced on July 30 and 31, with thousands of migrants irregularly entering Ceuta by swimming, skirting the El Tarajal breakwater.
“The Ceuta border will be open on the 15th [of August], a holiday in Spain,” some messages spread through the internet read, encouraging people to participate in a new mass irruption. In response, Rabat has reinforced the Fnideq border post (known as Castillejos during the Spanish colonial period) with hundreds of security force members supported by military troops, as seen in videos that have been circulating for almost a week in digital media in the Maghrebi country.
Images have also been spread of the installation of razor wire and barbed wire on the fences marking the border limit on the Moroccan side.
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