Some drowned and others got caught up in crush, official says, as incident prompts criticism by other EU nations
At least 34 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after more than 40,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco in a matter of hours, triggering a political crisis for the Madrid government and unleashing a barrage of criticism from other EU countries.
The large influx of people arriving in Ceuta by swimming across from neighbouring Morocco or scaling the high border fence has caught the city of 85,000 off guard and resulted in what one local police association has called a “serious humanitarian crisis”.
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, who arrived in Ceuta on Friday, described the influx as “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity” and said he would use all the state resources at his disposal to guarantee the safety of the people of Ceuta.
European countries including Spain have sown destruction and exploitation around the world for their own benefit. It’s not surprising that marginalized people are trying to get their fair share. European countries have spread capitalism which destroys communal support systems in order to profit off of access to resources/land/cheap (or free) labor force/etc. regardless of societal/ecological consequences (“externalities”).
If Europe wants to solve the refugee/migrant problem it should help communities to rise above the system that puts a price tag on human needs and which is based on a competitive struggle of everyone for themselves and their family, while an elite gets richer and more powerful above it all.
What nonsense