Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was heckled today as he arrived in Ceuta while the Spanish government is battling to beat back a wave of 49,000 migrants who swam from Morocco yesterday.
Sanchez’s government launched a programme in Spain earlier this year to provide legal status for some 500,000 undocumented migrants.
The security reinforcements to be dispatched in the following hours to Ceuta include eight divers, a boat and drones, the ministry said.
The chaos in Ceuta also spread to Spain’s second North African enclave of Melilla overnight.
Warning shots were reportedly fired from both sides of the border between Morocco and Melilla on Friday, as police tried to contain the crowds.
The African enclaves endured a night of chaos with cars torched and migrants forcing their way into buildings after the unprecedented influx on Thursday.
Spain sends in army to beat back wave of 49,000 migrants storming enclave as ‘warning shots fired’ amid Europe border panic
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