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NYTimes.com: Hundreds of Migrants Storm Fences to Enter Spanish Enclave in Africa

Posted by: Berhane.Habtemariam59@web.de

Date: Saturday, 28 July 2018

A migrant climbed the border fence separating Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.CreditFaro Tv, via Reuters

By The Associated Press

MADRID — Hundreds of migrants stormed border fences separating Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on a journey to reach Europe, the police said Thursday.

Spain’s Civil Guard said 602 migrants made it onto Spanish soil in a massive assault on the high, barbed-wire fences shortly after dawn.

Migrants cut holes in the fences and threw feces and quicklime, a skin irritant, at police officers trying to hold them back, the Civil Guard said in a statement.

The police said 16 migrants and five police officers were hospitalized.

Sub-Saharan Africans living illegally in Morocco try to reach Europe each year by climbing rows of 20-feet-high fences surrounding Ceuta and Melilla, Spain’s other North African enclave. Those who make it across head for temporary migrant accommodation centers.

Thursday’s assault added to pressure on Spanish authorities from a recent wave of migration, with hundreds of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea on unsafe boats each day.

The International Organization for Migration says so far this year more than 22,700 migrants have arrived in Spain — three times more than in the same period last year. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said it picked up 332 people in the Mediterranean on Thursday.

 

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