access to Europe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/access-to-europe/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 01 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 access to Europe Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/access-to-europe/ 32 32 Spanish border guard loses an eye as migrants storm Ceuta fences https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/spanish-border-guard-loses-eye-migrants-storm-ceuta-fences/ Sun, 01 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/spanish-border-guard-loses-eye-migrants-storm-ceuta-fences/ A Spanish border guard has lost an eye in violent clashes with desperate people trying to gain access to a  Spanish enclave in North Africa. Four of his conmpatriots along with fifty Moroccan border guards were injured when more than 1 000 African migrants tried to storm a border fence. Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and […]

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]]> A Spanish border guard has lost an eye in violent clashes with desperate people trying to gain access to a  Spanish enclave in North Africa.

Four of his conmpatriots along with fifty Moroccan border guards were injured when more than 1 000 African migrants tried to storm a border fence.

Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melila are surrounded by six metre-high barbed wire fences to keep out the migrants trying to reach them in the hope of achieving shelter in mainland Europe.

Only two managed to breach the fence yesterday, but they were returned by Spanish guards.

The migrants have become increasingly violent, using wire cutters and steel pipes.

Last month 400 managed to breach the fence.

Hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans hide out in Morocco to make their bid to climb the fences.

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