More than 200 sub-Saharan immigrants have tried early this Friday to approach the border fence that separates Ceuta from Morocco, although the Moroccan Gendarmerie has contained the group before they reached the double fence.
The situation occurred around 6:00 in the morning and the attempted entry forced the Tarajal border customs to be temporarily closed by the National Police, as well as the deployment of land and maritime units of the Civil Guard, as reported to EFE by sources from the armed institute.
The two hundred immigrants have staged the attempt to enter through an intermediate zone of the 8.2 kilometer land border perimeter, without any of them managing to get close to the fence, ten meters high.
The Moroccan Gendarmerie set up an important device in the area that managed to stop the immigrants, despite which the Civil Guard deployed its units on the Spanish side of the fence in anticipation of their approach.
For its part, the National Police decided to temporarily close the Tarajal border customs, although the crossing has been reopened at 8:15 a.m. for the entry of people and vehicles, which is occurring normally, as EFE has been able to verify. .
Meanwhile, the Civil Guard keeps the maritime units operational at the two border breakwaters, although the entry alarm has been deactivated.
According to the data provided to EFE by the Government Delegation, the last massive group entry attempt was recorded on October 7, 2021 when some 300 immigrants tried to access through the northern border of Benzú, without any of them succeeding due to to the intervention of the Moroccan forces deployed in the area.
That same 2021, but on April 13, another 60 immigrants tried to jump over the fence in the area closest to the Tarajal border, although they were rejected, except for one who climbed to the top of the double fence but was finally delivered. Morocco.
In this way, we must go back to August 30, 2019 to find the last successful entry attempt when 155 immigrants from a group of about 400 who tried through the Benzú border breakwater accessed Ceuta, on a day in which that 16 immigrants and 11 civil guards were injured and with bruises.
