First storming Spanish enclave 2017

ceuta - have in the first hours of this year, more than 1,100 migrants stormed the fences around the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta. Spanish and Moroccan border guards tried to prevent the massive border crossing. In addition, five Spanish and numerous Moroccan officers were injured, according to reports from Spanish media.

The onrushing migrants, mostly people from black Africa, behaved very organized and violent, according to authorities. It is ultimately only two people managed to climb over the fences and land on Spanish soil. They were taken to a hospital with injuries.

Ceuta in North Africa has been six hundred years Portuguese or Spanish territory and is set on the Strait of Gibraltar, about 15 kilometers from the Spanish coast. The piece of EU Africa is shielded along the 8 kilometer long border by a double row of six meter high fences. Yet often people try to Europe want to defy the fences.