Migration crisis in Spain: Ceuta: protesters set fire to migrant camp
The Red Cross is being blocked, fires are being set in the migrant camp: the demands in Ceuta for the repatriation of migrants are becoming more violent. The government is struggling for solutions - and is under pressure.
Protesters set fire to a migrant camp in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, and demanded the immediate return of migrants to Morocco. The protesters, who had also tried to block Red Cross vehicles carrying food and water, were separated from the migrants by police. Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave, where up to 80,000 had arrived from Morocco in late July, with at least 96 deaths reported.
The Spanish government, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, faces pressure from the opposition and locals, with conflicting reports on whether authorities received a warning about the mass influx. The government is due to address the crisis in parliament on September 3.
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