Ceuta Update
It's been 15 days since tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco began flooding across the border into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta. Because the shocking images of the influx of mostly men of military age faded from international headlines after a few days, the casual news observer outside of Spain might think the situation in Ceuta is under control. In fact, the most recent videos coming out of the Spanish city are in some ways even more alarming than those documenting the initial invasion.
. . . While no official data has been released, a spokesperson for the police union JUPOL claims there is now a rape every day in Ceuta. Euronews reports that three Moroccan nationals were arrested this week for sexual assault offenses. El País describes the disturbing reason why another man was returned to Morocco (translation with the aid of AI): "A fourth detainee accused of entering a private residence and getting into the bed in which a woman was sleeping, wearing only his underwear, was also returned to Morocco after being charged with unlawful entry into a dwelling.”
A week ago,
Failing Spanish Prime Minister, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez declared the invasion crisis of Ceuta over, and flew off to vacation in the Canary Islands.
But the reality in the North African enclave is much different.
Thousands upon thousands of invaders are still there – a group almost entirely made of military-aged males, as befits an invasion.
The beaches of the territory have become an unmistakable tragedy, a slum made up with shacks made with straw and cardboard.
The sand is strewn with garbage and human waste, turning the once-touristic spot into a third-world hellhole.
More recently,
Attempts by authorities to clear Ceuta’s Trampolín beach and create a foothold for a return of the area to normality failed this week, as the remaining illegal migrants immediately re-established a tent city.
Less than 24 hours after the Spanish exclave city government attempted to clear the thousands of migrants from the encampment established on Trampolín, the local Ceuta Actualidad reported that the coastline was already covered in “kilos” of garbage.
“Not even a day. Not even a day has passed before Trampolín beach and its surroundings have become a dump again,” the local outlet reported.
The beach has been home to thousands of illegals who flooded across the border from Morocco last month in an apparently coordinated effort that saw around 80,000 migrants storm the border of Spain’s North African territory.
While Madrid and Brussels were quick to claim that all such illegals would be returned home, several thousand illegals remained within the city.
Just this past weekend,
The far-from-resolved invasion of Ceuta has plunged the city into a dramatic emergency marked by growing insecurity, surging crime, and warnings of a possible “sanitary catastrophe” by local healthcare professionals.
. . . El Español reports that local hoteliers have lost half of their usual restaurant clientele over the past weeks since the invasion. The outlet spoke with Gema Molina, a woman who has lived her whole life in Ceuta and who has been the owner of a local downtown restaurant over the past 15 years. She affirmed to the outlet that locals are now hesitant to go to a restaurant or club out of fear — a sentiment also shared by its owners who feel “abandoned” and not represented by the Spanish government.
. . . Molina further denounced that restaurants have suffered attacks by migrants who “enter in packs” to ask for food and drinks — becoming hostile should the restaurant refuse to comply with their demands. In other instances, she told El Español, it is the clients who are harassed by the migrants into compliance instead.
“The problem with all this is that if you don’t give them anything, there’s a confrontation. But I’ve also found bags of their feces outside my restaurant, as well as countless puddles of urine,” she denounced.
“And I’m the one who has to clean it up. Imagine walking up to a business that has human feces outside. No one is going to want to go in,” she continued.
It appears that the sanitation and crime problems are too big for the local government to handle -- the solution would mainly involve the mass removal of the remaining migrants, which estimates number about 10,000 of the possibly 80,000 at the start. But the national government is apparently unwilling to admit there's a problem at all, which is something we're seeing in the UK as well, and so far, legacy media is complicit.