More than 500 Sub-Saharan migrants managed to enter Melilla, this Wednesday, March 2, after a massive assault at the enclave’s border fence.
According to local authorities and the Spanish Civil Guard, approximately 2,000 people participated in this new irregular migration attempt.
The migrants used hooks, sticks, and other objects to climb the border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave.
The mass group attempt resulted in three injuries, to both the Civil Guards and to the migrants.
This attempt to cross is the most massive ever recorded at this location. The migrants used the tools at their disposal to “outflank Moroccan security forces who were trying to prevent them from reaching the fence,” explained the prefecture of Melilla in a statement.
Melilla and neighboring Ceuta are regularly the objects of crossing attempts by illegal migrants seeking to reach Europe to escape war or poverty after crossing part of Africa and crossing through Morocco.
This Wednesday’s crossing is the largest at the fences of the two Spanish enclaves since July 2018, when more than 600 migrants managed to cross the one in Ceuta.
In all of 2021, 1,092 migrants managed to enter Melilla, double the number that entered on Wednesday, according to figures from the Spanish Interior Ministry. The 2021 figure represented a 23% decrease from 2020.
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