The Ministry of the Interior has revealed to the National Court judge María Tardón, who is investigating the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta, that Morocco arrested two people who administered a WhatsApp group that was used to spread calls to enter the autonomous city on July 30 and 31. The information that the Spanish government has shared with the magistrate comes from an informative note prepared by the Spanish embassy in Morocco, to which Efe has had access. The arrests of these two suspects took place on August 6.

A new investigation by Amnesty International has documented about thirty new cases of mistreatment of migrants in Ceuta by the military in recent weeks, despite the Ministry of Defence's announcement to open an investigation into previous cases of "torture". The organisation, which made the information public this Thursday, has reported up to 28 new cases of beatings, humiliations, vexations, and abuses by members of the Spanish armed forces against migrants who are still in the autonomous city after the mass entry from Morocco on the 30th and 31st of July. Among the victims are 13 minors. With these, there are now 50 cases of mistreatment documented and reported by Amnesty International, some of which could "constitute torture due to their severity," according to the organisation.

Ceuta collapsed this summer with the massive entry of thousands of migrants, and three months later it has still not returned to normal. This weekend, the autonomous city government warned that there are more than 7,000 people housed in the various temporary camps set up by the State, but that those who would have remained outside these facilities should also be added. Their estimate is that there are between 3,000 and 4,000 people sleeping on the streets, of whom half a thousand are minors, almost 100 days after crossing the border illegally at the end of July. In contrast, this Monday, the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, announced that the Spanish government is already working to reduce the number of temporary places that have been enabled to respond to the humanitarian crisis and that they will dismantle the resources "as soon as possible".

"Nothing has changed even a little bit. There are thousands of immigrants who still remain in the city, many of them on the street," stated the spokesperson for the Ceuta government, Alejandro Ramírez, and the Minister of the Presidency of the same executive, Alberto Gaitán. They said this coinciding with the three-month anniversary of the massive influx of migrants at the end of July. According to the data provided by the regional executive this Saturday, at this moment there are 7,500 people housed in the different camps set up, to which should be added those who would still be outside these facilities. "We estimate that currently between 3,000 and 4,000 people could still be outside the accommodations provided by the [Spanish] government. Regarding the minors, I wouldn't know the exact figure, but they tell us that there could still be between 400 and 500 on the street," stated Gaitán.

Brussels wants to give more powers to Frontex, the European Union agency in charge of border management. The European executive proposes to strengthen the body's role in deportations so that it can return immigrants to their country of origin from non-EU territory. Thus, for example and according to the planned reform, the agency could return a person from Mali who is in Morocco. To carry out these operations, however, it will be necessary for the third country in question to have previously signed a specific agreement with the EU.

The Spanish government announces that it has reached an agreement with the Italian Interior Ministry not to extend the border controls that existed between both countries and had been in force since August. Specifically, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, decided to impose this measure in response to the migration crisis in Ceuta and the entry of migrants from Morocco at the end of July, and the Sánchez executive responded reciprocally.

If Pedro Sánchez's stance on immigration was already dissonant with the rest of the bloc, his distance from his partners has widened following the Ceuta crisis to the point of appearing irreconcilable. This Friday, the Spanish executive president was the target of criticism from his partners in a "difficult" debate on immigration in which he was left alone, according to sources present in the room speaking to ARA. The focus of the reproaches was the regularization process for thousands of immigrants that a group of states, led by Denmark, Italy, and Poland, consider a "pull factor" for immigration to the continent.

The Ministry of Defense has sent to the Ceuta duty court and the Public Prosecutor's Office the audio recordings published by Eldiario.es in which at least three soldiers deployed in the autonomous city boast amidst laughter about beating up migrants during their surveillance shift. Margarita Robles' department has incorporated the recordings into the documentation previously sent following Amnesty International's report on allegations of beatings and mistreatment. Defense assures that it is doing so "to preserve the good name of the armed forces".

The now famous "whoever can do it, should do it" of Aznar has reached, as it could not be otherwise, the Spanish monarchy, and that is where they stand. Announced weeks in advance, the visit of the King and Queen of Spain, Felipe and Letizia, to the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, has no other content than the full support of the royal house for the potential PP and Vox government. At least that is how the Spanish right and far-right interpret it, because it is quite difficult to interpret the gesture in any other way, and even more so in these days of full electoral pre-campaign. “We are living in dark days,” the monarch stated last February, in a speech before the European Parliament, with his characteristic ambiguity: everyone could understand that the darkness he spoke of alluded to the rise of the far-right throughout Europe, or perhaps to the evils of Sanchismo. In any case, Felipe VI and the Spanish Crown do not hide their preferences, at least since October 3, 2017.

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, explained this Tuesday that the Spanish government has registered 3,019 unaccompanied minors in Ceuta since the mass entry on July 30 and 31. After the Council of Ministers, the spokesperson for Pedro Sánchez's executive also specified that these 3,000 children are "registered and cared for," meaning they are in spaces enabled for minors and, therefore, separated from adults. Of these, 89 have been relocated to the Peninsula in application of the right to family reunification – with direct relatives or extended family –, and 173 more have been relocated to different autonomous communities in accordance with Article 35 of the Immigration Law.

There were a few weeks, during the height of the Ceuta crisis, when the main question was: why aren't the monarchs visiting the autonomous city after the massive influx of immigrants on July 30th? The day finally arrived this Tuesday, just the day after Hispanic Day, when Felipe VI and Letizia stepped into the autonomous city for the first time and claimed its Spanish identity. "Ceuta is Spain and Europe," the monarch defended in a speech delivered at the end of a day in which he had a crowd bath. It is a delicate trip regarding the diplomatic balances of the Spanish state with Morocco, but the king was clear in his rejection of this summer's "violation of the border." "The sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country are not negotiable: they are indisputable," he remarked.

The Spanish police began the eviction of the immigrant settlement located on the esplanade of the old El Guano factory this Sunday morning, the last of the large camps that were organized in Ceuta following the massive influx of immigrants recorded on July 30 and 31.

Few teams have the heart and character of this Sabadell. With a small budget and many players making their debut in the Second Division, Ferran Costa's team is having a perfect start to the season and today they took the three points from Ceuta's field in a match where all the stars were aligned against the Vallesans (1-2). But this Sabadell does not believe in stars or luck. They believe in hard work and sacrifice, and that is how they won their first away game of the season, after three draws and one defeat. Baena, with two goals, was the hero of the match.

The 2015 refugee reception crisis represented a turning point for Europe. From then on comes the fear of a new migration crisis at its borders. The perception of threat is such that the overreaction is immediate, regardless of how many there are (with the Aquarius there were 630, 106 when the ship arrived in Valencia) and whether they have actually arrived (let us remember that in Ceuta they were still on the African continent).

The National Police have deployed a large operation from early this Sunday at El Trampolín beach in Ceuta to carry out the eviction of the more than 3,000 people who still live in this illegal settlement since the massive entry of people from Morocco occurred at the end of July. According to Efe, more than 600 of these have already returned to Morocco because they did not want to be identified.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will visit Ceuta and Melilla on October 13 and 14, respectively, in the monarch's first official trip to the two autonomous cities since he ascended to the throne in 2014. The visit, agreed upon between the Spanish government and the Royal Household, comes almost twenty years after the last trip by a Spanish monarch to the two cities, in 2007, which caused a diplomatic crisis with Morocco.

We have people camping in Ceuta wishing to enter and live in a country where there are people camping in protest for fear of being kicked out of the rental apartment where they live. It is the same country where there are thousands of people camping every night on the streets. Or who have had to turn their room into a campsite, into a kind of new vertical shanty town.

An Amnesty International investigation has documented "torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of migrants in Ceuta by members of the Spanish armed forces. The organization, which made the investigation public this Wednesday, reports beatings, harassment, and the theft of money and mobile phones by soldiers patrolling the city, and describes these as attitudes that follow "a pattern" against migrants remaining on the streets of the Spanish city following the mass crossing from Morocco on July 30th.

The political and social crisis that has exploded with Maricarmen's eviction, and which reached Congress this Tuesday, has largely made people forget the political and social crisis caused by the massive entry of immigrants through Ceuta on July 30th and 31st. In a way, it is as if one crisis has covered up the other and, trivializing it a bit, as if the one in Ceuta were the summer crisis, while the housing one were the back-to-school crisis. In both cases, public opinion reacts with the same question: what repercussions will these events have on the electoral cycle? More specifically: does Pedro Sánchez still have any option to revalidate the presidency? If it is Feijóo who finally governs, with what pacts with Vox will he do it? In both options, what happens next will not be like 2023: a redefinition of the political landscape will foreseeably occur, in the form of a deep upheaval. These questions are what have a large part of public opinion on alert, much more than the plight of immigrants or the evicted. This, of course, is also part of the dehumanization of the poor, one of the constants of our days.Ceuta has been and remains a very representative example of this dehumanization. The immigrants who have been trapped in the colony (in the autonomous city, in administrative language), those who died in the first days, those who have suffered hunger, thirst, and deprivation, have enjoyed very few considerations. Camps of helpless people have been set on fire, hunts for immigrants have been perpetrated, and open calls have been made to hatred, to murder, to a crusade, and to the defense of Spain by the most violent means possible. The immigrant has been literally put in the crosshairs, and even the children of immigrants have been labeled as invaders who do not deserve any kind of consideration, even by parties and political representatives who call themselves liberals, centrists, moderates, and democrats. The management of the Spanish government has been slow, cumbersome, and hampered by the incomprehensible servitude of the Spanish rulers to the Moroccans; that of the government of Ceuta has been disloyal and toxic. But even more worrying than that has been the opening of the floodgates of hatred to let out the old discourses that deny people their human condition, the kind of discourses that precede massacres or waves of executions.

The hitherto delegate of the Spanish government in Ceuta, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, has resigned from his post, denouncing the "constant harassment" he has suffered in the last two months, with personal attacks that have made him say enough is enough. In an appearance without questions, Pérez Triano announced that he is not only leaving the delegation but also putting an end to his political career. "My family does not deserve this," he insisted after citing the personal attacks, among which was a funeral wreath he received at the delegation: "This is also violence." According to Moncloa sources, the delegate conveyed his desire not to continue in the position a few days ago, in a decision that the executive describes as "human and personal" after "many weeks of immense work."