Thousands of migrants swim to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta

The newspaper “El Faro” published in Ceuta put the number of migrants at at least 2,700. How many there were is still unclear. The people had to cover almost two kilometers in the water. For comparison: just around 85,000 people live in the city of Ceuta.

Both newspapers cited the anger of the government in Rabat that Spain allowed medical treatment for the head of the Polisario independence movement for Western Sahara, Brahim Ghali, as a possible reason for the Moroccan police inactive. He has been treated for corona disease in a Spanish hospital since April.