Spain's PM blames trafficking mafia for ongoing Ceuta migrant crisis

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Spain's PM blames trafficking mafia for ongoing Ceuta migrant crisis. Spain's Pedro Sanchez criticised a sudden arrival of around 40,000 migrants from Morocco to the north African enclave Ceuta as "an attack, a violation" of Spain's national territory. The prime minister blamed the influx of immigrants on criminal networks manipulating a recent court ruling that immediate returns of migrants crossing the border illegally did not apply to those arriving by sea. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris tells us more

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Spain's PM blames trafficking mafia for ongoing Ceuta migrant crisis.Supported · Medium-high confidence

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Operational intent is unclear.Public rhetoric may be coercive messaging rather than evidence of a specific near-term action.

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Spain's PM blames trafficking mafia for ongoing Ceuta migrant crisis.

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