Source: Aljazeera
More than 1,000 migrants tried to jump a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday in a violent assault that saw one officer lose an eye.
A group of 1,100 people from sub-Saharan Africa trying to reach Europe stormed the border fence just after 4am (03:00 GMT) on New Year’s Day in an “extremely violent and organised” way, said the central government’s representative office in Ceuta.
None, however, managed to get through, but two who were badly injured and taken to hospital in Ceuta, the office said in a statement. A similar assault on December 9 saw more than 400 migrants enter the tiny enclave.
They tried “to force open some of the doors in the external fence, using iron bars, wire cutters and large stones, with which they assaulted Moroccan forces and [Spanish] Guardia Civil [police] agents,” it added.
Categories: Europe, migrants, refugees, Spain, The Muslim Times
My personal opinion is that all monuments commemorating dead soldiers should stress that war is a horrible thing and that these people were victims of human folly, and not make them “heroes dead for a noble cause” or something.