Civil Guards try to contain the assault on the fence at Melilla on June 24, 2022
Ceuta and Melilla are two Spanish enclaves on the coast of North Africa, each surrounded on three sides by Moroccan territory.
It looks like Spain is getting ready for another assault at the Melilla border. Or are they?
Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the Spanish daily El Mundo:
Immigration:
The police in Melilla warn: “Morocco rules here, when they want to punish Spain, they will once again permit a massive crossing.”
One year after the tragedy, Guardia Civil personnel stationed at the fence warn that there are some 1,500 migrants at Mount Gurugu.
The polemics and the questions involving the tragedy at the fence in Melilla are not fading; rather they are growing one year after 23 migrants — according to the official number, and 37 according to the NGOs — died at the border crossing while trying to reach Europe. The fence crossing in the early hours of the morning on 24 June 2022 was dynamite for the ministry of Fernando Grande-Marlaska. What happened here attracted the attention of Europe and global media, and inflamed the NGOs and all opposition parties.
Five months later, the BBC threw salt on the wound in the worst possible way: A documentary placed some of the deceased migrants in a zone under Spanish control. Up to today, the number of persons who lost their lives continues to be unknown. At this time, Grande-Marlaska has always attempted to distance his ministry from the tragedy and knock down any alternative construction to his story — shared by the Guardia Civil — that there were no deaths on the Spanish side and that police action took place on a legal basis.
The Minister of the Interior has also had to face the Public Defensor’s Office, who accused him of illegal and massive deportations, the insistence of the European Parliament that he appear and explain what happened, and the contempt of humanitarian organizations. In the middle: the civil guards in charge of guarding the border. Twelve months later, they reflect on a drama that, they warn, will repeat itself “when Morocco wants”. Their years of experience lead them to that conclusion. They know how the Alaouite kingdom works and also the determination of the migrants to reach Europe.
“They will keep coming; they will keep trying to cross the fence because they are desperate. They have not traveled 3,000 kilometers in Africa to the gates of Europe only to return home,” reasons one of them. At this time, says another of the agents consulted, they have evidence that there are 1,500 migrants at Mount Gurugu, the redoubt in which they take refuge before trying to violate the fence. They regret that what happened on June 24, 2022 did not help the Ministry of the Interior to take note. “We continue exactly the same as a year ago. Without the resources, neither material nor human, to face another avalanche of this type,” they complain.
They report that shields broken on that day have not been repaired, and anti-riot helmets announced by the minister after the events have not arrived, either. “We still have the same equipment as thirty years ago,” they lament. “We feel abandoned by the hand of God,” they conclude.
“Nothing Has Changed”
Among the rank-and-file of border agents there is resentment. “At first, it was all demonstrations of support. The minister comes a lot, but at the moment of truth, nothing has changed. Things continue at exactly the same point, and here we all know from our own experience that Morocco is in charge. When they want to punish Spain, they will return to allowing a massive crossing.” At the time of the avalanche, they say, there were only five guards to contain the more than 2,000 people who were trying to reach Spain. The border crossing experienced an episode of extreme violence.
The assault showed that nothing has changed in the structure of border control. The agents had to contain the multitude with the same anti-riot equipment as thirty years ago, despite the ministry’s announcement after the border debacle that occurred in the month of March. At that time, there were 16 Civil Guards guarding the fence, the same as in March of 2022 — when the most massive assault in the history of the Melilla fence was recorded with 2,500 people in an avalanche, which was the fourth massive attempt the Guardia Civil had to repulse over six days. A total of 800 migrants succeeded (4,300 attempted), and practically all of them have already applied for asylum. It turned into a pitched battle between those who wanted to enter Spain and the agents charged with guarding the border. 50 agents of the Guardia Civil and National Police were injured, and 23 migrants died, according to official numbers. Shortly afterward, the Interior Ministry provoked a monumental storm in the Guardia Civil — especially among the agents who guard the fence at Melilla — with the sudden dismissal of the chief of the city’s command. Jesus Vicente Torresano was removed from the Melilla command after going public with his differences with the General Director of the Armed Institute weeks after being appointed.
According to agency sources, Torresano wanted to implement specific instructions so that the agents could act under legal protection against the migrants who assaulted them in successive charges against the fence and refused to open an inquiry into the Civil Guards who threw rocks at the sub-Saharans who wanted to reach Spain last June 24.
The Secretary of Communication of Jucil, Agustin Leal, describes a chronic situation. “This administration and the Interior Ministry continue to neglect security, and the consequences are paid, in the first instance, by Civil Guards and afterwards by the population. We are asking that the national legislation and that of the EU in matters of immigration be applied because this will mitigate the effect. It is unacceptable that everyone who enters our territory illegally and at unauthorized points is entitled to the process of asylum.”
They will all be let in as that is the plan all along. Every country in europe goes on and on about “The Migrants” but still they let them in.Import the 3rd world,become the 3rd world.
164 nations signed the UN treaty labeling them as climate refugees.
Climate is the fault of first world countries so they will be assimilated by any means necessary.
How long before the “migrants” get a little better organized, and pick up a few weapons? Abandoned border check points will be seen unless TPTB start beefing up their guard numbers, and arm them appropriately. This stupid game that’s being played is going to get a lot of Europeans dead. The EU is trying to convince it’s members to commit suicide. I should talk. We got the same situation here.
The real story is the Democrats tryin to find a population willing to work to replace the current burdensome population. The loosers in North America are the A-A descendants of the “defectives” dumped into the Slave Trade by the West African Tribes and, in Europe, the Jihadis fleeing the modern weapons in the Mid-East. Degenerates all. And useless except for the population/vote count. And be sure that the Progressives will count them all, since it increases their vote power. End the influx by ending the “Gibs Me Dat” that encourages the influx of “Illegals”. If a “country” has lots of “political” refugees, cut off their cash support and end their official recognition. We should not have to support their corruption. End all cash transfers from the US to “Ghetto-land”. Hold all “refugees” in the first “free” country, i.e. Mexico. End all commercial imports from Mexico. Let the RINOS support American workers.
It will be a difficult “transition”, but that is the price of having your own country. All our prices are going up. They might as well be going to those willing to work, instead of to the grifters in Washington.
Not sure about your “defectives”. Yes, while many (most?) of the black Africans sold to European transatlantic slavers were purchased from arabs, many others were bought from dominant tribes: Ashanti in Ghana, and the Yoruba in Nigeria (why not, in a tribal society?) I’m not convinced that this throws much light on the relative “degeneracy” of the tribes involved.
Perhaps we should be grateful that the Christian church, in the first Millenium, in encouraging converts to transfer their loyalty from the tribe to the Church, discouraged consanguinity (marrying your sibling/cousin, which leads to birth defects/lowering of average intelligence), and laid the ground for the secular Enlightenment, transferring loyalty to the State, without which we would not be free (so far) to debate these issues.
Yes, I know this is an over-simplification, but I’m so grateful to live in what’s left of this ideal.
“Great replacement “ , this parasites finished this beautiful continent very quickly..