Así se refugian los migrantes en el barrio de El Príncipe y en los bosques de Ceuta

After the evictions, Ceuta is left with cleaner beaches, fewer settlements and hidden migrants in the barriadas. The once murky sand at El Trampolín now only contains scattered heaps of rubbish. Among the remnants are a cooking pot with remnants of food, a pink blanket, a SIM card box for a mobile phone and a plastic bottle filled with urine.

There are also countless remnants of the reeds that grow along Ceuta's roadside and which migrants used to erect the massive settlement that sprang up after a massive influx. Two excavators are clearing the waste and loading it onto a truck for transport to the landfill. The cleanup crew, numbering around twenty operatives, is busy with the task.

Among the 200,000 kilograms of waste, they have recovered a hundred "flippers" and "diving suits". It remains unclear whether they were used for swimming into the autonomous city or if they served as fishing gear during the past two months of the settlement's parallel existence. And now that it's gone, hundreds of "voluntary returns" have followed, following their eviction by the police.