Ceuta Residents Torch Migrant Camp Near Beach As Tensions Flare in Spain

Tension is rising in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, where dozens of residents stormed a makeshift migrant camp near Playa del Trampolín on Thursday, destroying and burning it. The action came after a group of protesters, responding to a call that had gone viral among local residents in recent hours, blocked the road to Red Cross vehicles carrying food for the migrants staying at the beach. "The more of us there are, the more pressure we will exert, read the appeal, which aimed to prevent food and water from reaching its destination as it does every afternoon.

Around a hundred residents took part in the sit-in on the avenue leading to Playa del Trampolín, expressing their frustration with the situation in the city as the one-month mark of the mass border crossing approaches. Chanting "Ceuta is not for sale, Ceuta is defended, the protesters argued that if the people who entered irregularly "are still being fed, they "will never return to their country. The trucks had to turn around and take an alternative route to reach the Trampolín area.