The request for permanent presence in Ceuta of the EU Border Protection Agency Frontex announced on Thursday in the Spanish legislature of Deputies Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Defending his migration policy, he stated that Spain is the second least permeable frontier of Europe.
On Thursday, the Spanish Prime Minister explained the crisis of late July, erstwhile more than 70,000 people from Morocco, who were inhabited by about 80,000 people of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in Africa, broke through. About 95 percent of them returned to Morocco during the first 2 days. At present, 5-8 1000 migrants from the then mass border crossing are present in Ceuta, according to various estimates.
The Spanish Prime Minister announced that he would ask the EU Border Protection Agency Frontex to guarantee a permanent presence in the port of Ceuta and in the city's breakwater where, as Sanchez said, the border crossed during the crisis each 4 of the 5 migrants. In addition, Spain intends to request a peculiar Europol mission to monitor ‘illegal migration’ in Ceuta.
APW, PAP
