According to the reconstruction ofThe country “the victims died crushed, asphyxiated, or by falling from the fence”. They would be eighteen in number, according to the latest report.
Friday, June 24, yet another drama linked to emigration took place at the gates of Europe, this time in Melilla, a Spanish enclave city in Moroccan territory.
This city, which has some 80,000 inhabitants, is part of the European Union, which is why many migrants, mostly of sub-Saharan origin, regularly try to enter it. This is what happened on June 24, when some 1,500 people approached the city, and several hundred of them tried to overcome the border fence.
The most important attempt since March 2022
Finally, 133 migrants managed to cross to the other side with the help of shears, but this huge crowd movement caused a very large number of victims, eighteen, as well as 63 injured. Members of the Moroccan and Spanish security forces were also injured.
As the Madrid daily explains, this episode represents “the largest attempt to cross the fence since March 2022, when the enclave of Melilla saw a historic number of entries, with 900 migrants who managed to access the city in two days.” An “assault” that had taken place in a moment of “diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Madrid” Explain The country, but since then, relations between the two countries have improved markedly.
Indeed, two weeks after this episode, “the executive of Pedro Sánchez had decided to give a historic turning point to the Spanish position on Western Sahara, notes the Iberian media, by deciding to support the Moroccan proposal for the autonomy of the former colony rather than the project of referendum for its independence”.
For the moment, this tragedy does not seem to have had any negative effects on relations between Rabat and Madrid, since this Saturday, June 25, during a press conference, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, praised the work security forces and the Moroccan government, while denouncing an attack on “territorial integrity” from his country.
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