Spain Migrant crises and update

[Saithan]

Jul 31 at 11:06 PM
Correspondent, cars and police get stones thrown at them by migrants: The mood has changed significantly in just a day and a half
In just a day and a half, the mood in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta in North Africa has changed significantly.

On Thursday, thousands of migrants from Morocco were helped by the Spanish police and shown where they could register on Spanish soil after they swam from the African country to Ceuta.

On their way into the Spanish city, several of the migrants shouted "viva España".

But on Friday evening, a certain situation shows that the mood is really changing, says Berlingske's journalist in Ceuta, Gunnar Willum.

A short time ago, he was walking with his wife on Ceuta's beach promenade when all the cars suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. Then they began to turn around frantically.

It was as if it all happened on command, says Gunnar Willum.

The reason?

Young migrants began to bombard the narrow road with stones.

“Before I could fully register what was happening, armored jeeps from the Guardia Civil (Spanish police soldiers, ed.) slowed down behind us,” says Berlingske’s correspondent.

Then four gendarmes in bulletproof vests with raised batons rushed towards Gunnar Willum, who managed to shout that he was a journalist.

The Spanish police soldiers stormed further towards the stone-throwing youth. Most of them were small boys, who were standing behind a high fence.

However, the boys were not intimidated by the police soldiers’ batons. The stones continued to fly towards the cars.

“The boys were small. But the stones were big,” says Gunnar Willum and continues:

”Suddenly it was as if the police soldiers realized that they were outnumbered. Or that it was not worth the effort. In any case, they turned around and headed back towards their armored jeeps.”

But the stones kept coming. One of them hit Gunnar Willum in the lower leg, he says.

The police then jumped into their cars.

“You can’t just leave us here,” Berlingske’s correspondent appealed.

But they didn’t want Gunnar Willum and his wife in the car.

“When we drive, they stop throwing,” said one of the Spanish police and closed the car door.

But the little boys didn’t stop. The stones continued.

“Hijo de puta España (Spain is a son of a whore, ed.),” the boys subsequently shouted from the very same cliffs where other migrants stood shouting “viva España” a day and a half ago.

But 36 hours is a long time in the world we live in.

“Nahnu sahafi,” Gunnar Willum shouted in Arabic to the boys. In Danish: “We are journalists.”

It apparently worked.

“Several older migrants started shouting at the boys to stop and drove them away,” says Gunnar Willum.

On Friday afternoon, the head of Ceuta estimated that 60,000 migrants had flowed into Ceuta.

However, that picture has already changed significantly.

Early Friday evening, the Spanish authorities announced that approximately 48,000 migrants had returned to Morocco from Ceuta.

Tusindvis af migranter strømmer ind i spansk eksklave – følg med her

Mange tusind migranter fra Marokko er ankommet til den spanske eksklave Ceuta i Nordafrika. Følg den seneste udvikling her.

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[mehmed beg]

 

[Saithan]

So Israel is bragging about being able to influence people enough to pull stunt like this in the TYT, but Marroco is just as guilty and EU should look at ways to improve relations with Algeria and work on pressuring Marocco.

How Spain's migrant crisis created a political storm - whipped up by social media

The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.

www.bbc.com

 

[Saithan]

Grænsekrise mellem Spanien og Marokko trækker tråde til gasleverancer og et oprindeligt folk

Spansk regeringsparti vil have FN til at undersøge Marokkos ansvar for hændelserne i Ceuta, hvor 72 mennesker har mistet livet i forsøget på at nå den spanske eksklave.

www.dr.dk

The crises is being asked to be investigated by Sumar. It seems to be drawing threads to west Sahara.

 

[Knowledgeseeker]

So Israel is bragging about being able to influence people enough to pull stunt like this in the TYT, but Marroco is just as guilty and EU should look at ways to improve relations with Algeria and work on pressuring Marocco.

How Spain's migrant crisis created a political storm - whipped up by social media

The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford writes.

www.bbc.com

Suggesting that the EU should pressure Morocco or pivot toward Algeria completely ignores the strategic reality of the relationship. Morocco is one of the European Union’s most important partners outside the EU itself in several fields, and is considered a strategic partner.


Let me mention a few facts:

- Trade volume of 60 billion USD between the Kingdom and the EU.

-In 2025 alone, Moroccan authorities thwarted 73,640 irregular migration attempts and dismantled more than 300 smuggling networks.

-Moroccan intelligence services have repeatedly provided crucial information that has helped foil terrorist plots targeting Europe. French, Spanish, Austrian, Belgian and other European officials have publicly thanked Morocco on multiple occasions for this cooperation. Without Morocco, you will see bombs in major European cities each month. Morocco remains one of Europe’s most effective partners against terrorism.


In short, Morocco is not a country the EU can afford to lose. Morocco is considered a strategic partner on migration, counter-terrorism, industry, critical raw materials, and regional stability. Undermining this relationship would harm European interests. As for pressure, it is a normal part of politics and occurs even in the closest partnerships. But pressure always goes both ways — and Morocco holds real cards of its own. Algeria simply does not possess the same strategic assets that Morocco does, nor can it be used as a tool to blackmail or pressure the Kingdom. Morocco’s strength derives from its deep-rooted traditions as a genuine nation-state with centuries of continuous history — not a state that was born yesterday out of Western colonialism.

 

[mehmed beg]

Grænsekrise mellem Spanien og Marokko trækker tråde til gasleverancer og et oprindeligt folk

Spansk regeringsparti vil have FN til at undersøge Marokkos ansvar for hændelserne i Ceuta, hvor 72 mennesker har mistet livet i forsøget på at nå den spanske eksklave.

www.dr.dk

The crises is being asked to be investigated by Sumar. It seems to be drawing threads to west Sahara.

Reading the article is really telling.
Sub article " European politicians will never understand how we are living"?
I truly feel sorry for the boy but I don't understand how 28 old person can think that his quality of life is so important to a politician in Finland or Austria , who by the are educated people and can make intelligent guess? Besides, who already hosting plenty people from his country and give considerable aid???
Complete unawareness of the world around, in fact of the basic rules of life.
In article itself, Spain is dependent on Algeria for gas or energy, they switched off , guess 8 nuclear reactors?
It shows that this isn't very serious government. As I have said it before, if I am in the place of Spanish government, I would consider this as act of war. So at least what I would do is to do naval and air blockade of Morocco.
But due to throwing all your cards in to bin , this government has no leverage and of course EU will just talk. It shows the complete fraud of liberal politics. Be it left or so called right wing.
After all, Turkiye fought in Syria for almost exactly the same reasons, obviously Spanish or Europeans ain't Turks. That much is clear .

 

[Huelague]

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[Huelague]

 

[Fatman17]

Moroccan irredentism is based on the theory of Greater Morocco, which claims numerous territories such as southern Algeria, Ceuta, and Melilla.... The Spanish footprint on the continent is marked by the failed decolonization of the Sahara and the authoritarian legacy in the Gulf of Guinea country.

Morocco's map should be larger than it currently is, or at least that's what the Greater Morocco theory argues—the main current of Moroccan irredentism and nationalism. Although its claims encroach on the territory of all its neighbors, it is a doctrine with influence on Moroccan politics and institutions, asserting that the current borders do not correspond to those that, for historical, political, or religious reasons, it should have.

Born in the 1920s, the Greater Morocco thesis seeks a continuity between the various dynasties that have reigned in Moroccan territory, such as the Marinid Sultanate (1215-1465) or the Almohad Empire (1121-1269), and present-day Morocco.

Specifically, the map of Greater Morocco includes the current State, Western Sahara , all of Mauritania, the western areas of Algeria, northern Mali and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the Spanish sovereign territories in North Africa —Perejil Island, Vélez de la Gomera, Alhucemas and Chafarinas—.

Its ideologue was Allal El Fasi, a theorist of political Islam and founder of the Isqiqlal Party or Independence Party in 1943. Influenced by Salafism — a current of Sunni Islam that calls for the strictest obedience to the Quran—and Pan-Arabism—a nationalist movement that seeks the political unity of Arab states—El Fasi took advantage of the climate of rejection of French and Spanish colonialism to build the religious-cultural identity of the future independent Morocco.

The dissolution of the European protectorates paved the way for the establishment of the Alawite kingdom in 1956, a proclamation that Moroccan nationalists celebrated as a partial victory. Their doctrines resonated particularly with the Makhzen , the political elite that pulled the strings of the nascent state and continues to do so decades later. For this reason, the demands regarding the map of Greater Morocco were quickly adopted by the new monarchy and became part of the official discourse, shaping the roadmap of the national project.

Some groups even claim the Canary Islands, although the Moroccan state sided with Spain when Algeria and Libya supported the Canarian independence movement. While Rabat has never definitively clarified the islands' Moroccan identity, sovereignty over the islands is not part of the demands of the country's leaders.

Following the achievement of self-determination and the subsequent death of King Mohammed V in 1961, his son Hassan II revived the Greater Morocco concept as an extension of Morocco's independence process. This process had begun with the dismantling of the French and Spanish protectorates and continued with the 1958 recapture of Cape Juby after what would be Spain's last war in Africa. In 1969, Morocco also received the territory of Ifni from Madrid.

Despite this, the most significant example of territorial expansion under the Greater Morocco theory was the Green March of 1975, when 350,000 civilians and 25,000 soldiers invaded Western Sahara. Mauritania was also initially targeted by the irredentist positions of the Alawite monarchy, but Rabat recognized its independence in 1960 and instead focused on the annexation of Western Sahara.

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