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It has been almost three weeks since more than 72,000 migrants invaded Ceuta. Since then, the Spanish government has tried to reassure the world that most of those who entered the territory illegally have now returned to Morocco and order has been restored. But as growing reports of women and girls being sexually assaulted make clear, this is far from the case.

Spain’s National Police began clearing an improvised camp on the beaches of Ceuta on Thursday morning, where more than 4,000 migrants had remained since the mass crossing on July 30th.

Twenty days have passed since that border crisis, and the Spanish autonomous city is still struggling to return to a normality that remains distant.

Moroccan police have blocked a second attempt by migrants to cross the border into Ceuta en masse.

Riot police were deployed at the border on Saturday as hundreds prepared to storm the Spanish territory, two weeks after tens of thousands made the crossing.

Migrants gathered in the border town of Castillejos after calls were made on social media encouraging a second attempt.

This is the moment a migrant paraglides into Europe from north Africa – a day after another died trying the same stunt.

Police were still searching for the sub-Saharan man today after he vanished shortly after landing at the Benzu viewpoint in Ceuta close to its land border with Morocco.

Spanish cops said today people smugglers charging migrants to make the risky air crossing were being given courses lasting just a few minutes instead of the 80 to 100 hours of training normally considered appropriate before risking their lives taking to the skies.

🇪🇸‼️🚨 MIGRANTS PARAGLIDE INTO SPAIN

Migration into Ceuta continues, slower but ongoing!

Previously trucks brought people to the border and told them to go to Spain; now traffickers push people in paragliders towards Ceuta.

Crazy… this footage reminds me of something. https://t.co/hHl9r6Jrci pic.twitter.com/fJ9xFnVtxj

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 9, 2026

Spain is bracing for a possible second mass migrant crossing into Ceuta as the political fallout from last week’s unprecedented border breach spreads from Madrid to Brussels.

The Guardia Civil is closely monitoring social media messages calling on migrants to gather in the Moroccan border town of Castillejos on August 15 before attempting to enter the Spanish enclave.

Criminals previously banished from Spain on jihadism charges were detected among the massive swam of illegal migrants that invaded Ceuta last week, unnamed Spanish law enforcement sources disclosed on Tuesday.

🚨BREAKING: The Bacon Squad introduces a new checkpoint test in Ceuta. pic.twitter.com/T1RDXm5WWS

— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) August 4, 2026

It is estimated that more than 50,000 migrants crossed entered the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the course of a single day after the border effectively collapsed.

Ceuta, an autonomous city, sits on Morocco’s northern coast. The Spanish government has said almost all of the migrants have since returned to Morocco, and at least 57 have died.

Faced with doubts as to how and why this was able to happen, the public was left with only footage and photographs: people swimming and climbing onto Ceuta’s Tarajal beach, tens of thousands in a single day and night, scores dead.

They didn’t “crossed entered” they invaded.

🚨 Here is the truth from Ceuta, Spain:
60,000+ migrants from Morocco’s border stormed the small town and are now hiding in the mountains and city to reach mainland Europe.

Moroccan migrants said Moroccan authorities let them through their border and Spain literally opened their… pic.twitter.com/xNbfLiAa9N

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) August 3, 2026

h/t Patti Jo

A growing chorus of voices have accused Morocco of helping to fuel the crisis in Ceuta, with the leader of the Spanish enclave describing last week’s border crossings as an attack on Spain’s territorial integrity that was seen as being “if not orchestrated, at least encouraged or permitted by Morocco”.

Spain’s interior ministry said late last week that 48,300 of the roughly 50,000 people who had turned up in Ceuta, a tiny Spanish territory in north Africa, had been sent back to Morocco. The extraordinary influx had overwhelmed the city of 84,000 and set off a political crisis across the EU as some member states laid blame on Spain.

🇪🇸 In Ceuta, a crowd of illegal Moroccan migrants is already establishing its own rules in the city

The crowd shouts “Allahu Akbar” at National Guard officers and drags a wounded migrant through the streets in protest against being returned home. pic.twitter.com/Q27cvVFLTW

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 3, 2026

More … Huge mob of Moroccans chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ clash with Spanish police after marching through Ceuta as enclave remains gripped by fear

Amid the international clamour over Ceuta, the Spanish city invaded by 60,000 migrants from Morocco, there has been a noticeable hush from one quarter: the Left.

There have been no rallies in solidarity with the Moroccans, no celebratory tweets from the Greens’ Zack Polanski. Labour backbenchers seldom silent on these matters can be heard on neither television nor radio.

It is as though socialists and other progressives recognise that events on the shores of the Mediterranean expose the grim reality that underlies their utopian worldview. Their dream, when put into practice, becomes a nightmare.

🇲🇦🇪🇸 A Spanish resident of Ceuta recorded the scenes he encountered on his way to work.

Follow: @europa pic.twitter.com/ux22g5bIko

— Europa.com (@europa) August 1, 2026

Spain has condemned the “selfish, polarising and unlawful” reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta.

Officials say almost all those who reached the enclave on 30 July have returned, while Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Saturday that the death toll had risen to at least 67.

It comes after Italy temporarily suspended the EU’s border-free Schengen arrangement with Spain, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the scenes “shocking”.

More … Europe turns on Spain over migrant chaos

Meloni leads charge to kick Madrid out of Schengen free-travel zone after 60,000 cross from Morocco into tiny territory of Ceuta

Mainstream Media on Ceuta: "Fake invasion. They all went home."

Reality: Multiple stabbings and the city still being overrun/terrorized. pic.twitter.com/CHjog4rOZ2

— Erikaaa (@ErikaCA47) July 31, 2026

The footage from Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish enclaves in North Africa where thousands of illegal migrants have rushed past the Spanish borders, ought to be of grave concern to all patriotic or sovereignty-minded people in Europe and beyond.

The scale and pace of this mass violation of the Spanish and, therefore, of the EU border are suggestive not of what the EU prefers to term ‘irregular migration’ or of ‘humanitarian need’ but of an invasion. Despite the pleas of local officials, the Spanish state has sat back whilst tens of thousands of Moroccan residents blatantly violate all norms and laws of national sovereignty in what appears to be a coordinated attempt to render these Spanish territories unviable as Spanish.

Cueta was a warzone last night
This was day 1
Today they’ve started looting every store in the city

If this doesn’t make you support remigration, I don’t know what will pic.twitter.com/dGT2nxmEft

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) July 31, 2026

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About 60,000 migrants have crossed into Spain’s North African territory of Ceuta from Morocco in the last 24 hours, Ceuta’s president says.

At least 34 people have died during the crossing, Juan Jesús Vivas said during a news conference.

The influx comes after Spain’s Supreme Court ruled this month that migrants stopped at sea while trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish exclave, cannot be summarily returned to Morocco.

🚨 BREAKING: The upper estimates of migrants that have flooded into Ceuta, Spain are now 100,000 THOUSAND, with the “official” figure closer to 50,000

That’s IN ONE SINGLE DAY!!

This city had a population of 80,000.

PM Pedro Sanchez says he takes “responsibility” for the… pic.twitter.com/7X7fVu07y2

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 31, 2026

Will the Commie Spanish government authorize use of force? Doubtful.

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Furious Spaniards have been forced to chase migrants down the streets of their home after thousands of migrants flooded the enclave this afternoon.

Extraordinary footage showed huge numbers of people sprinting up beaches, swimming ashore and dispersing into the streets of the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, which borders Morocco, with some shouting ‘Long live Spain’.

Crowds, which officials estimated to have been made up of 20,000 people, were seen swimming out to bypass a long border fence that juts out into the Mediterranean on the Moroccan side, before swimming back on the Spanish side.

BREAKING:

First clashes have broken out in the streets of Ceuta between Spanish citizens and Moroccan invaders.

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2026

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CEUTA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Ceuta asked the government in Madrid to declare a national emergency and requested army intervention, as thousands crossed into the tiny Spanish territory.

Videos shot at Tarajal beach showed crowds of people, mainly Moroccans, walking around the breakwaters and running on the beach and roads. While the majority appear to be young men, there were also families with women and children. “Viva España!” some shouted to a freelance photographer working for The Associated Press filming the scene.

🇪🇸 Insane footage from the Moroccan border with Spain: thousands of migrants are gathering at the border

This is exactly what Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez was aiming for. pic.twitter.com/Fb1pEKU0jj

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2026

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