BATTLE FOR EUROPE: More than 1,100 migrants fight riot police as they storm Spanish border
RIOT police fought running battles with a mob of more than a thousand migrants who tried to storm Europe’s borders and force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta today.
By NICK GUTTERIDGE
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jan 2, 2017
At least 1,100 asylum seekers rushed the barbed wire fence protecting the tiny north African enclave, which is surrounded on all sides by Morocco, in a desperate bid to reach the EU.
Spanish and Moroccan authorities desperately fought to restore order as the migrants, most from sub-Saharan Africa, scaled the border barrier and brawled with police.
Television footage showed migrants perched on the top of the fence as they tried to get over. Around 55 police officers were injured in the chaos – 50 from Morocco and five from Spain.
Moroccan authorities said 10 of their security personnel had been serious wounded during the fighting.
Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the six-metre barbed wire fence early on Sunday before being lifted down by cranes, footage from local TV station Faro TV showed.
The Spanish government later insisted all the assailants had been turned back except two, who were allowed into Ceuta for medical treatment.
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