Protesters Clash with Police, Set Fire to Ceuta Migrant Camp
Protesters tore down migrant shelters and blocked Red Cross food deliveries as police contained clashes, with 16 sexual assaults and rising robberies reported.
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On the third consecutive day of mobilizations, protesters set fire to an improvised camp on Benitez Beach. Before they cut off the passage to the Red Cross convoy that distributes food daily. More information: Twelve migrants arrested for stoning four soldiers in Ceuta: "They suffered bruises, needed medical attention"
Hundreds blocked food aid to migrants for more than two hours. In another part of the city, inhabitants entered camps and burned property.
Police forced to contain neighbors among whom the crisis is triggered
Locals Block Red Cross Aid, Storm Migrant Camps Again as Ceuta Resistance Grows
Hundreds of Ceuta residents blocked Red Cross vehicles carrying food to illegal migrants on Thursday, 27 August, before pushing through police lines, dismantling makeshift settlements and setting migrant encampments on fire, as anger over the thousands who remain in the Spanish enclave after July’s mass invasion spilled into a third consecutive day of unrest. The confrontation began near Benítez beach, where residents sat across the road for mor…
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