31.07.2026 Flows of thousands of migrants have streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa from Morocco prompting Spain to deploy its military to restore the border.
İspanya'nın Kuzey Afrika'daki Ceuta bölgesinin Fas'tan yüzerek gelen göçmenlerin akınına uğramasının ardından, AB'de alarm zilleri
🔴 İtalya'dan İspanya'nın Schengen Bölgesi'nden çıkarılması çağrısı
🔴 İtalya Dışişleri Bakanı Tajani: "Schengen Bölgesi'nin İspanya'ya… pic.twitter.com/wInymJwCcM
— The Cradle Turkiye (@cradleturkiye) July 30, 2026
Videos and images from the frontier showed crowds of people, mainly young Moroccans, walking around the breakwaters at an urban beach near a border checkpoint with Morocco onto local roads. The majority looked to be young men, though there were also families with women and children.
https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/2082880424452207084?s=20
The escalation at the frontier comes after a surge in migrants attempting to reach the small exclave, mainly by swimming, a day before. It was not immediately clear what prompted so many people to cross to Ceuta, but the social media played a role on mobilizing them.
Spain’s government said it would send the Armed Forces to help the Civil Guard in Ceuta, which Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was expected visit today.
Sono favorevole alla chiusura dello spazio Schengen con la Spagna e ho piena fiducia nell’operato del Ministro Piantedosi. L’immigrazione irregolare e incontrollata rappresenta un pericolo per la sicurezza nazionale. Le immagini che arrivano da Ceuta dimostrano come la scelta del…
— Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani) July 30, 2026
Italy’s foreign minister said Thursday that he supports suspending Spain’s participation in the Schengen area, citing the ongoing migration crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
“I am in favor of closing the Schengen Area to Spain,” Antonio Tajani wrote on US social media platform X, arguing that “irregular and uncontrolled immigration poses a danger to national security.”
“The images coming from Ceuta show how the Madrid Government’s decision to grant Spanish, and therefore European, citizenship to over 500,000 irregular immigrants is profoundly wrong and encourages human trafficking,” he added.
His remarks came as Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta faces a sharp increase in migrant arrivals from neighboring Morocco.
Earlier Thursday, the Board of Spokespersons of the Ceuta Assembly criticized the Spanish government’s response to the crisis as “clearly insufficient,” according to the EFE news agency.
