Sharjah24 – Reuters: More than 6,500 migrants out of the approximately 8,000 who had entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta earlier this week have been sent back to Morocco, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Friday (May 21).
Footage showed at least a dozen of migrants being transferred from a warehouse being used as reception centre to another warehouse after members of United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spoke with police.
Red Cross attended migrants and health staff carried out COVID tests on some of the remaining migrants at the improvised reception centre.
Marlaska told Radio COPE the situation was now "normal" compared with the previous days, and hoped that the recent diplomatic spat with Morocco "will be as short as possible."
Morocco had appeared to loosen its border controls with Ceuta on Monday (May 17) as thousands of migrants poured into the enclave, a move widely interpreted as retaliation for Spain's hosting of Western Sahara independence leader Brahim Ghali. Ghali has been in a Spanish hospital since last month.
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