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Five Cars And Several Containers Set Ablaze In Front Of A School in Ceuta

Spain Updates — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:15:31 +0000

MADRID, Spain – The invaders of Ceuta are sowing terror in the autonomous city, with several illegal immigrants among the approximately 20,000 still remaining on Ceuta’s streets having burned several vehicles and containers in front of a school zone in recent hours, causing a fire in the El Príncipe neighbourhood. Tension has escalated more than […]

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Ceuta Migration Crisis: Transfers Of Minors To Other Autonomous Communities Begins

Spain Updates — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:06:14 +0000

MADRID, Spain – The judge investigating the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta has requested a copy of the 40 declassified reports from the government, with María Tardón deciding on Wednesday to incorporate those documents into the case. Meanwhile, in the autonomous city, the first transfers of migrants to other autonomous communities have begun, with […]

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Spanish Tourists Mass-cancel Trips To Morocco Following Ceuta Incursion

Spain Updates — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:46:46 +0000

MADRID, Spain – Spanish travellers have begun cancelling their planned trips to Morocco in significant numbers, as the diplomatic standoff and the incursion into Ceuta on 30 July have started to leave their mark on hotel bookings, with initial market data pointing to a concentration of cancellations for immediate stays. According to figures from the […]

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Sanchez: Ceuta mass entry a ‘hybrid attack’, denies Moroccan ‘blackmail’

Spain Updates — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:32:11 +0000

MADRID, Spain – Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has elevated the diagnosis of the Ceuta crisis, now assuming that the mass entry of migrants from Morocco can be classified as a hybrid attack, though he stopped short of identifying who would be behind such an action. Until now, the head of government had spoken of a […]

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Marlaska Angers Journalists in Ceuta by Limiting Press Conference Questions

Spain Updates — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:22:53 +0000

MADRID, Spain – The visit of Fernando Grande-Marlaska to Ceuta ended on Tuesday with a confrontation between the minister’s team and the journalists deployed to cover his presence in the autonomous city. Marlaska appeared in the afternoon at the Government Delegation after visiting the Temporary Foreign Reception Centre of El Tarajal and the border crossing, […]

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Supreme Court Suspends Voting Rights For Those Registered Under ‘grandchildren’s Law’

Spain Updates — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:17:18 +0000

MADRID, Spain – The Supreme Court has provisionally suspended the voting rights of descendants of Spaniards registered under the so-called Grandchildren’s Law, with the Third Chamber taking the decision just one day after both Vox and Iustitia Europa requested these precautionary measures due to the irreversible effects they argued could occur on the electoral register. […]

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Illegal Moroccan Migrant Sexually Assaults Woman Hours After Arriving By Boat In Palma

Spain Updates — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:04:41 +0000

PALMA, Spain – Local and National Police officers have arrested a young Moroccan man, who had arrived in Mallorca by boat just hours earlier, as the perpetrator of a sexual assault against a shopkeeper on Gabriel Roca Avenue, popularly known as the Paseo Marítimo, in Palma. The incident occurred at approximately 9.50am, when, according to […]

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National High Court Sees Ceuta Crisis As ‘attack On Territorial Integrity’ Of Spain

Spain Updates — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:55:06 +0000

MADRID, Spain – The investigating magistrate of the National High Court, María Tardón, has agreed to assume jurisdiction over the investigation into the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta, ruling in an order issued on Monday that there has been a serious attack on Spain’s territorial integrity and concurring with the National Police’s assessment that […]

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Government Now Says It Is ‘impossible’ To Calculate Migrants In Ceuta

Spain Updates — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:23:56 +0000

MADRID, Spain – Minister of Territorial Policy Ángel Víctor Torres has stated that it is now “impossible” to provide an exact figure for the number of migrants remaining in Ceuta following the mass entry on 30 July, acknowledging that more than a month after the incident, authorities still do not know precisely how many people […]

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Night Of Vandalism In Ceuta With Vehicle Burnings And Fights Among Migrants

Spain Updates — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:54:22 +0000

MADRID, Spain – The autonomous city of Ceuta has experienced its worst night of vandalism since the mass entry of migrants on 30 July, with three vehicles set ablaze, a fire in the hillside and violent altercations among migrant groups, police and fire services have confirmed. According to sources from the police and the Fire […]

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