{"id":30965,"date":"2016-12-10T02:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hundreds-of-african-refugees-storm-spain-s-killer\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T02:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:37:40","slug":"hundreds-of-african-refugees-storm-spain-s-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hundreds-of-african-refugees-storm-spain-s-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of African refugees storm Spain&#8217;s killer fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{More than 800 people rush border barrier from Morocco into North African enclave of Ceuta with half making it over.}<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 people from Africa stormed a border fence to enter Spain&#8217;s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in one of the biggest illegal crossing attempts in recent years at the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Antonio Nieto, the Spanish interior ministry&#8217;s state secretary for security, said about 800 people had tried to get over the fence in the early morning crossing on Friday, and 438 succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>He said 49 were treated in a Ceuta hospital for injuries. Two police officers were also slightly injured. Nieto said some people used sticks and stones against the officers.<\/p>\n<p>Television images showed many people celebrating and giving victory signs on having made it across.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the biggest mass charges in recent years on Ceuta&#8217;s border barrier, known as the &#8220;killer fence&#8221; because of the barbed and bladed wire that caps it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortunately, we did not have to regret any deaths or too many injuries this time,&#8221; Helena Maleno Garzon, a member of the Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) group that works with potential border violators in Morocco, told The Associated Press news agency by telephone from Tangiers city.<\/p>\n<p>She said those attempting the crossing include teenagers and minors fleeing conflict in Mali, or who had lost family through the Ebola disease in Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans living illegally in Morocco try to enter Ceuta and Melilla, Spain&#8217;s other North African enclave each year, hoping to get to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Both cities have six-metre-high border fences separating them from Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Most people who try to cross are intercepted and returned to Morocco. Those who make it over the fences are eventually repatriated or let go.<\/p>\n<p>Ceuta&#8217;s accommodation centre has 1,178 asylum seekers, more than twice its capacity.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16967 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/26e80596b4f34b4fb12f512c5ee91a00_18.jpg\" alt=\"Most people who try to cross are intercepted and returned to Morocco\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{More than 800 people rush border barrier from Morocco into North African enclave of Ceuta with half making it over.} More than 400 people from Africa stormed a border fence to enter Spain&#8217;s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in one of the biggest illegal crossing attempts in recent years at the frontier. 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