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Africa North
Over 200 migrants colonists storm border in Spain's Ceuta
2016-11-01
[AlAhram] Around 220 African migrants colonists forced their way through a fence between Morocco and the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta Monday, clashing with police in an incident that injured 35, officials said.

"The migrants colonists demonstrated a hostile and violent attitude. Many were armed with sticks and they attacked the officers when they tried to prevent them from entering," the Spanish government's representative in Ceuta said in a statement.

Three coppers and 32 migrants colonists were treated in hospital for minor injuries, the statement said.

The migrants colonists were taken to a short-stay immigrant centre while Spanish authorities determine their legal status,
"Put 'em all down as 'conquering horde', Alfonso."
a local police front man said.

Police were also searching for a handful of others who made it across the barbed-wire fence and fled into the surrounding hills.

Ceuta along with Melilla, another Spanish territory in North Africa, have the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
's only land borders with Africa.

They are favoured entry points for African migrants colonists seeking a better life in Europe, who get there by either climbing over the border fence or by swimming along the coast.
Posted by:trailing wife

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