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Clashes in Spain’s Ceuta month after mass migrant influx

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More than 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta in late July, swimming or crossing on foot from neighboring Morocco in a chaotic influx that left scores dead.

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  1. BBC News

    Spanish government says sorry to people of Ceuta for migrant crisis (opens BBC News)

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    Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave after a mass crossing from Morocco in late July.

  2. Breitbart News

    ‘Pedro Sanchez, Son of a …’ Ceuta Residents Protest Against Govt's Invading Migrant Shelter Plans (opens Breitbart News)

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    Hundreds of Ceuta residents on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest against the Spanish government over its plans to shelter invading migrants in several local facilities and public sports centers. The protest was organized by local communities who are fed up

  3. Courthouse News Service

    Clashes in Spain’s Ceuta month after mass migrant influx (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    More than 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta in late July, swimming or crossing on foot from neighboring Morocco in a chaotic influx that left scores dead.

  4. Breitbart News

    Watch - Spain Fights Back: Fed-Up Ceuta Locals Trash Beach Migrant Camps in Nights of Protest (opens Breitbart News)

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    Ceuta residents are protesting nightly, tearing down and even burning migrant tents, and engaging in tense standoffs with pro-migrant NGOs.

  5. France 24

    Spanish government urges calm after Ceuta anti-migrant protesters clash with police (opens France 24)

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    Spain's left-wing government called for calm in the North African enclave of Ceuta on Friday after protests over security escalated into clashes between locals and police, a month after a mass influx of migrants from Morocco triggered a Europe-wide alert.

  6. BizPac Review

    Spanish residents tear down migrant camps, block Red Cross in massive uprising (opens BizPac Review)

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    Residents in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta are taking to the streets to defend their city. Ceuta sits across the Straights of Gibraltar from mainland Spain in […]

  7. Deutsche Welle

    Spain asks EU's Frontex for help in processing Ceuta migrants (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Of the over 70,000 migrants who illegally crossed into Ceuta from Morocco in late July, some 5,000 still remain in the Spanish exclave. Ceuta residents have been angrily protesting their continued presence.

  8. Washington Examiner

    Spanish protesters and migrants clash with police in Ceuta one month after surge (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Spanish protesters and migrants clashed with police and each other in Ceuta, one month after a horde of over 70,000 Moroccan migrants abruptly swarmed the small Spanish enclave. Footage of the mass of migrants storming the territory of just 84,000 people sparked a national crisis, and Madrid’s socia…

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