Although the Spanish government had insisted that there were no minors among the migrants returned immediately at the border of Morocco with Ceuta, the Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation following the complaint of the Fundació Arrels for the case of a 16-year-old boy who swam -helped by a float made of bottles- to the beach of the autonomous city and shortly after the police accompanied him to the border to expel him. Spanish law and international law prohibit the expulsion of minors because they are part of a group with special protection that cannot be left without guardianship and, for this reason, when they arrive in a country it is the public administrations that take charge of them while their family is not located. Although the proceedings are being opened as a result of a specific case, the Public Prosecutor's Office has clarified that if other expulsions can be documented, they will also be investigated.

Tense calm in Ceuta. The city wakes up with hundreds of people who have slept in the streets, attended by NGOs and the solidarity of the neighbours. After two days of arrival of 8,000 migrants -among them, many families with very young children-, the border is closed again and the Moroccan guards have resumed the controls they had stopped doing, which has triggered the most serious humanitarian and diplomatic crisis between the two countries in recent decades.