Moroccan authorities stopped this weekend, a massive migrants’ attempt to enter Ceuta’s territory.
More than a hundred immigrants tried to set foot in Ceuta, which required the reinforcement of agents of the Civil Guard both in Benzú and in the Tarajal with the cooperation of the Moroccan forces to prevent the entries before getting overwhelmed, according to EFE.
Moroccan authorities were warned of the attempts by the Civil Guard after spotting a hundred sub-Saharan immigrants with thermal cameras around descending the mountain known as Mujer Muerta to try to make the assault through the area of Belyounech.
The Moroccan forces quickly handled the situation, by halting the attempted assault and managing to stop the immigrants before they got close to the area of the Benzú breakwater.
The authorities prevented and intercepted about a hundred Moroccan to jump into the water trying to carry on their attempt through the Tarajal breakwater to reach the beach
The halt followed another massive attempt during the early hours of last Saturday and a second during the night through the border area of Tarajal, which was also repelled by the Moroccan gendarmerie.
Both the Civil Guard and the Moroccan authorities took action which resulted in preventing fifty immigrants, some of them swimming and others distributed in three rafts, from reaching the coast of Ceuta.
From 2013 to 2022 a total of 2,783 people jumped into Ceuta and 4,077 people jumped into Melilla, according to the latest figures provided by the Spanish Ministry of Interior.
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.
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