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Hundreds of migrants try to storm border into Spain's enclave of Ceuta
[YAHOO] At least 800 sub-Saharan African migrants colonists tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish and Moroccan governments said.

Dozens of migrants colonists made it to the top of the six-metre barbed wire fence early on Sunday before being lifted down by cranes, footage from local TV station Faro TV showed.

Spain said about 1,100 migrants colonists attempted the crossing. Only two were allowed into Ceuta to be taken to hospital while the rest were returned to Morocco, the Spanish government said in a statement.

Five Spanish police and 50 from Morocco were maimed, the government added, after migrants colonists used rocks and metal bars to try and break through gates to access the fence and clashed with authorities.

Morocco's interior ministry reported that some 800 migrants colonists had tried to storm the enclave, and that all had been placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
. It said 10 members of its security forces were seriously maimed.

"From now on those making such attempts will be presented before the competent judicial authorities who will decree their expulsion from the kingdom (of Morocco) or heavier penalties, according the gravity of the act," the ministry said in a statement.

Spain's two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, are often used as entry points into Europe for African migrants colonists, who either climb over their border fences or try to swim along the coast.

Moroccan woman is arrested for trying to smuggle a migrant, 19, across the border into Spanish Ceuta inside a SUITCASE
Photos at the link. It looks dreadfully uncomfortable.
[DailyMail, of course] A Moroccan woman has been jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 for trying to smuggle a 19-year-old migrant from Gabon across the border with Spain curled up inside a suitcase.

The Spanish Civil Guard arrested the woman in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave next to Morocco, on December 30.

It comes as around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants colonists today tried to cross into Spain from Morocco via Ceuta by storming a border fence.

Spain has drawn criticism from human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
 groups for allowing some migrants colonists to be immediately turned back to Morocco in such incidents. They argue that skipping the lengthier deportation procedures deprives people of the opportunity to claim asylum.
Posted by: Fred 2017-01-02
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=477307