Morocco stopped Tuesday night at least 100 Sub-Saharan migrants from climbing the high fence separating Moroccan territory and the Melilla enclave, marking the third day of an offensive on the border.
Hundreds of irregular migrants attempted to enter Melilla for the third consecutive day, between Sunday and Monday. The Civil Guard alerted their Moroccan counterparts at 4:20 am on Tuesday of at least 100 migrants storming the border.
“Immediate communication with the Moroccan security forces made it possible to abort this latest attempt,” a spokesperson for the Melilla government told Euronews.
The entry attempts to Melilla began on Sunday with the arrival of a group of 50 migrants.On Monday another group of almost 80 migrants tried to scale up the border.
The number of irregular migrants that arrived in Spain by land via Ceuta and Melilla was estimated to be approximately 1.75 thousand in 2020 .While nearly 6000 migrants reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, and some other 8000 migrants including Moroccan unaccompanied minors and sub saharan migrants who crossed borders to Melilla in 2021.
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