Nearly 2,000 migrants have tried to enter this enclave which is regularly the subject of attempts to enter Europe.
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Nearly 2,000 migrants tried to enter Melilla from Morocco on Friday June 24 and 130 succeeded, according to the prefecture of the Spanish enclave, which established a new assessment of this massive entry. She had announced earlier that more than 400 had tried to enter Melilla.
However, five migrants of African origin were killed during this attempt. According to Moroccan local authorities, 76 others were injured, 13 of them seriously. In addition, 140 members of the police were injured, including 5 seriously, during their intervention to prevent migrants from entering the Spanish enclave, according to these local authorities.
Spanish law enforcement spotted a group approaching the border around 6:40 a.m. “A large group of 500 people from countries in sub-Saharan Africa” forced entry from border control and “at least 130 people” managed to enter Melilla, added a spokesman for the prefecture.
Located on the northern coast of Morocco, Melilla and the other Spanish enclave of Ceuta are the only land borders of the European Union on the African continent. They are regularly the subject of entry attempts by migrants seeking to reach Europe. This attempt at massive entry into one of the two enclaves is the first since the normalization in mid-March of relations between Madrid and Rabat, after a diplomatic quarrel of almost a year.