Just a week ago, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was still insisting, annoyed at having his vacation interrupted, that he was deporting the last vestiges of the migrant horde who had invaded the delightful Mediterranean enclave of Ceuta in the weeks prior. The same horde he had assured the world had already been returned shortly after their arrival, leaving a small fraction of the 72,000 bodies behind. He was keeping those borderjumpers, mostly Moroccans, under lock and key in warehouses until they, too, were vamoosed.
The little city was practically saved.
None of that was true, of course.
The pristine Trampolin Beach that locals loved and visitors enjoyed so much is now in its second aborted round of clean-up after being completely befouled by camping invaders.
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 20, 2026
Spanish police is moving a large number of illegal migrants in Ceuta from their make-shift camp on the beach to a new, better-equipped temporary migrant camp built by Spanish authorities.
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Clean-up efforts by the city have been called off once, and may be again, because they cannot guarantee the safety of the poor workers tasked with going into the revolting mess. Uninvited migrants have created it on those once gorgeous shores as they attempt to evade being sent back to wherever it is they came from by leaving the shelters and hitting the beach.
The Government of Ceuta and its cleaning crews will, on Friday, try to clean up TrampolĂn beach for the second time, according to the newspaper "Faro de Ceuta". There, they will first attempt to carry out a new eviction of the approximately 500 migrants, although there are no official figures, who are thought to have returned over the course of Thursday afternoon to this kind of makeshift camp, after being transferred to temporary reception centres that same morning.
The situation appeared to have been resolved on Thursday when cleaning crews entered after the initial eviction, but over the course of the afternoon, the migrants returned to the makeshift camp. The migrants fear, in part, that their relocation to the four new centres opened by the central government will be a first step towards their expulsion to Morocco.
Numerous encampments or shacks have been put up this week on TrampolĂn using reeds, plastic bags and cardboard. The figures for those camping there are once again all over the place, depending on which authority is asked, as is the number of transfers on Thursday morning to the temporary facilities at Loma Margarita and El Embolsamiento, which have a capacity of 1,800 people.
While the police say that around 4,000 people were evicted, government sources cut that figure to 1,500.
It's a maddening round of lather, rinse, repeat for local authorities trying to move them off the beach, begin cleaning the filth up, and then boom. Bodies are back before it barely gets underway.
#EmergenciaCeuta La indignaciĂłn del pueblo de #Ceuta reflejada en este vĂdeo que un ceutĂ subiĂł a sus redes. Desalojan la Playa del TrampolĂn y a las 2 horas, de nuevo okupada. Estamos con Ă©l, como la inmensa mayorĂa de ceutĂes. #SomosCeuta #SomosEspaña pic.twitter.com/du4W6Ow2mv
— CeutaAhora (@ceuta_ahora) August 20, 2026
#EmergenciaCeuta The outrage of the people of #Ceuta reflected in this video that a Ceuta resident uploaded to his social media. They clear the Playa del TrampolĂn and two hours later, it's occupied again. We're with him, like the vast majority of Ceutans. #SomosCeuta #SomosEspaña
The uninvited guests all have a terrific opinion of PM Sanchez.
🔴 IMPRESIONANTE | Un grupo de inmigrantes que han vuelto a la playa de Ceuta de forma ilegal se ponen a aclamar en grupo a Sánchez: "Es el mejor presidente de la historia"
— Unai Cano (@unaicano10) August 21, 2026
"La PolicĂa marroquĂ y la española nos dijeron que entrásemos en España, que serĂamos bienvenidos". pic.twitter.com/aKdU6eMonk
IMPRESSIVE | A group of immigrants who have returned to the Ceuta beach illegally begin to cheer Sánchez in unison: "He is the best president in history"
"The Moroccan and Spanish police told us to enter Spain, that we would be welcome."
Well, the males do at any rate. The few females who did brave the invasion aren't faring so well, go figure, and neither are many other girls and women who come into contact with the predominantly young, fighting-age male demographic. It makes me wonder what the bikini-topped white girl in shorts, welcoming the horde with happy waves as they rushed into town a few weeks ago, thinks of them now.
The largest union in the National Police , Jupol , revealed new details on Wednesday about the wave of sexual assaults occurring in Ceuta following the mass influx of undocumented immigrants on July 30. Its spokesperson, Laura GarcĂa, confirmed at least two gang rapes of girls aged 10 and 14.
According to GarcĂa, speaking in a television interview, the doctors who treated the victims stated that they had "never seen such an atrocity in a sexual assault." The union spokesperson added that, in addition to the girls, at least four boys were also sexually assaulted and are currently hospitalized.
Sanchez is once again running afoul of the European Union with his plan to deal with unaccompanied minors. He's gearing up to bring them to Spain and is roaring mad at the little cooperation he's receiving from other European governments and the outright refusal to accept any of them from autonomous provinces in Spain itself.
The EU is pretty clear about what they want done: 'Send them back to Morocco.'
Pedro Sánchez's government is planning the urgent transfer to mainland Spain of 500 migrant girls who arrived in Ceuta, while the EU supports sending the unaccompanied minors back to Morocco.
Although the central government insisted from the outset that no migrants would be transferred to the mainland, Spain has now decided to make arrangements for the transfer of 500 unaccompanied minors. According to Spain's Ministry for Youth and Children, work is underway on the urgent transfer to mainland Spain of 500 migrant girls who arrived in Ceuta during the mass migrant influx between 30 and 31 July.
Sources at the ministry explain that "this plan includes the royal decree-law providing for compulsory, solidarity-based reception by all the autonomous communities, or family placement, as well as other mechanisms to speed up reception."
Among the options being considered is a route that would allow child-protection organisations to manage the reception and care for the most vulnerable cases, including the girls, in tailored facilities on the mainland, without the need to transfer guardianship to the autonomous communities.
Several autonomous communities have already said they will not take in unaccompanied minors who arrived in the Ceuta mass crossing. The central government has criticised what it calls a lack of "solidarity" shown by these regions.
What a disaster and a conscious choice by Sánchez to sacrifice an entire Spanish city.
He is having a break down because he was promised to receive upon arrival free house, food, car, healthcare, living allowance monthly payments, etc., after his long trek to Spain! 🤷
— Siboney Peltier (@NitaPeltier) August 21, 2026
He isn't going to be there when the whole place collapses.
Ceuta nurses call for declaration of state of emergency amid 'serious health crisis'. The association of nurses has stated that its staff are "overwhelmed" and "in a state of exhaustion and extreme physical fatigue". pic.twitter.com/a1bCoAeWgW
— SUR in English (@SUR_English) August 20, 2026
These socialist-communist types never are.
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