The grotesque announcement of Griso and Quintana in Ceuta

Things don't really happen until the television stars arrive. On the first day of the regular season, the big media figures have landed in Ceuta not because the news required it more than last week, but simply because their holidays have ended. And they have returned criticizing that Pedro Sánchez has also taken some. The misery and drama that has been fermenting for weeks on the city's beaches and streets can now be exploited with the necessary sensationalism. And enough time has passed for many residents of Ceuta to finally see up close their heroines who come to save them all. Now the conflict is for real.Monday, the day began with the morning queens of Antena3 and Telecinco walking along El Trampolín beach. It's the day they put on jeans because they're acting as reporters. They walk among poverty, exquisite and stylish, demonstrating that, when necessary, they roll up their sleeves. Both magazines have recorded the presenters walking among shacks, looking around with concern, as if it were an advertisement. They also observe the provisional showers that have been installed and comment with astonishment on the improvised mosques or the clothing markets. The contrast between their sophistication and the panorama surrounding them is morbid, acquiring a kind of grotesque epic. The definitive proof that Ceuta's situation is serious is that even they have had to check it firsthand. Susanna Griso and Ana Rosa Quintana allow themselves to be touched by the women of Ceuta who admire them. Griso puts her arm around the shoulders of a woman who tells her they can't take it anymore and that they won't be able to take their children to school: “Don't worry, we're going to talk to a lot of people”, she tells her, as if she were a guarantee of a solution. The woman rests her head on her chest and cries. Ana Rosa's program has set up fences to protect its presenter and a crowd of ladies lean over. “Ana Rosa, you are our voice!” They give her fans and get emotional. Quintana takes them by the arm to convey support: “We are not going to leave them”, she consoles them. “In these difficult times, all Spaniards are Ceutians”, says Quintana as soon as she opens the program. She has brought Eduardo Inda, dressed in a guayabera, to Ceuta to be a commentator.The two sides of the story are unequal. The voice of the autochthonous citizens is live. The interventions of the Moroccans are always recorded. Griso listens to them without stopping much, and in the editing they only keep what she translates from their comments. They only have to extend the microphone and ask dramatic questions: “How much have you slept in recent weeks?” Everyone answers by loading against Pedro Sánchez. They know what is expected of them in these programs. The presenters ask them to show the pepper spray cans that women carry in their bags. Susanna Griso and Ana Rosa Quintana have not gone to Ceuta to explain anything we didn't know. Their mere presence serves to heighten the unease. They are not looking for anything else.