Spain: more than 200 immigrants celebrate stealth entry in Melilla

Throughout the night the Spanish civil guard has discovered several groups of people approaching the border, disappearing in a ditch before the border barrier in this enclave situated southeast of Ceuta.

Of the nearly 300 immigrants who tried to cross over, 214 achieved and enter the reception centre. The joy was notorious. The Center has capacity to 480 people, but currently houses approximately 1300 immigrants.

In addition to Melilla, Ceuta, also the other land border that separates Morocco from Spain, has been one of the ways sought by immigrants to reach Europe. In early February, more than a dozen people have died trying to reach swim to Ceuta. This time, the authorities reacted in a controversy, when firing rubber bullets on immigrants. Human rights groups protested against the Spanish action, prompting the Ministry of Interior of Rajoy to prohibit the firing of rubber bullets at the border.

The Spanish Government considers these collective attempts to overcome border "the method of entry [in the EU] more worrying by the destabilizing potential, the ability to cause social alarm and the risk of causing violence". The executive led by Mariano Rajoy has called on the European Union. Spain asks for more money and new measures to tackle this problem and to return these immigrants to origin immediately.

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