The Spanish Ministry of the Interior recorded a total of 6,860 attempts to assault the Ceuta and Melilla fence since 2013.
The findings were given by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, in an answer to a question in Parliament. Each person who managed to scale the border is considered a “jump”, regardless of whether the crossing was individual or in a group.
The data does not include the mass scaling that took place on May 17-18, 2021, when thousands of Moroccans entered Spain.
The Spanish Interior Minister indicated that from 2013 to 2022 a total of 2,783 people jumped into Ceuta and 4,077 people jumped into Melilla.
The largest number of break-ins in Ceuta was recorded in 2017, with 1,174. In Melilla, the number increased from 51 people who crossed the border in 2013 to 2,069 in 2014.
On Saturday, nearly a hundred Moroccan security forces were injured, due to a clash with approximately 700 migrants who attempted to jump over the fence that separates Morocco and Melilla.
In addition to European aid, Morocco spends up to 200 million euros to keep migrants from crossing into Europe, Morocco’s top migration chief Khalid Zerouali said in a previous interview with Hespress EN.
Renewed ties between Morocco and Spain led to fresh commitments on cooperation to fight illegal migration.
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