Moroccan security forces blocked today an attempt by hundreds of migrants, mostly sub-Saharan, to irregularly reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. This was reported by security sources in Rabat, cited by the Efe agency, according to which the group had hidden in a mountainous area near the city of Fnideq – Castillejos during the Spanish protectorate – southwest of the Iberian enclave in Morocco.
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Thousands of Moroccan agents are engaged in the deployment set up to prevent new mass arrivals in Ceuta, following calls spread on social networks ahead of August 15. The dispersed migrants remained in the area, sources report. Measures were strengthened after the crisis of July 30 and 31, when about 80,000 migrants crossed the border, causing 82 deaths on the Spanish side of the border, according to data released by the Ceuta Institute of Legal Medicine, which performed autopsies on the bodies. There would be at least 141 victims on both sides of the border, according to estimates by humanitarian organizations, including Caminando Fronteras.
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