CEUTA, Spain – Four individuals have been arrested in Ceuta for stoning a military patrol in the early hours of Saturday, leaving a sergeant with minor injuries, in the latest attack on security forces in the autonomous city. According to Interior Ministry sources, the arrests were made following the stone-throwing incident, while Defence sources indicated […]
CEUTA, Spain – Police are investigating whether members of an NGO linked to George Soros have been instructing irregular migrants in Ceuta on how to make homemade explosives, following reports from supermarkets that large groups of migrants, assisted by activists, have been purchasing hydrochloric acid and aluminium foil. According to National Police sources consulted by […]
CEUTA, Spain – A spontaneous citizen initiative has organised a nautical journey to the autonomous city from numerous ports in the south of the peninsula as a gesture of solidarity and fraternity with the people of Ceuta, one month after the migration avalanche that overwhelmed the city, with participants dubbing it the Armada of Solidarity. […]
CEUTA, Spain – The spark that has pushed Ceuta to the brink of social explosion was ignited on Friday, literally, as a group of residents set fire to a migrant camp on Benítez beach, nearly one month after the mass entry of more than 80,000 people into the autonomous city. A cordon of riot police […]
CEUTA, Spain – Military personnel and Guardia Civil officers deployed in Ceuta have called on the government to permit the use of proportionate force in response to growing violence, as the migration crisis in the autonomous city becomes increasingly entrenched with between 8,000 and 10,000 irregular migrants continuing to live in precarious conditions on the […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal – The Nepal Tourism Board has confirmed that two Spanish nationals have been located after initially being reported missing, following the massive flash flood that has claimed more than 600 lives and left nearly 3,000 people unaccounted for in Nepal and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. The official body included the two Spaniards in […]
CEUTA, Spain – Tensions over the migration crisis in Ceuta escalated on Wednesday night as confrontations broke out between angry residents and police, with officers forced to fire warning shots into the air to disperse demonstrators. The disturbances began after thousands of Ceuta residents gathered at the Government Delegation to demand the expulsion of migrants […]
CEUTA, Spain – Twelve Moroccan migrants have been arrested in Ceuta after allegedly participating in an attack that injured four soldiers in the Benzú area, where a group of between 30 and 40 people ambushed them and threw large stones at their vehicle, according to sources from the Superior Police Headquarters. The incident occurred around […]
CEUTA, Spain – One month after the mass entry of more than 80,000 migrants, residents of Ceuta say the situation has gone from bad to worse, with an estimated 10,000 immigrants still wandering the streets, including some 3,000 minors, according to local government and police union figures. Elderly people are carrying pepper spray in their […]
CEUTA, Spain – Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska confirmed on Thursday the arrest of two individuals, a Canadian and a German national, in Ceuta after they allegedly encouraged groups that violently confronted security agents deployed in the city. The detainees were reportedly collaborating as volunteers with the NGO “No Name Kitchen”, an organisation that has publicly […]
