Local authorities claim that between 8,000 and 11,000 migrants remain in the overseas Spanish territory
Ten days after a massive surge of over 72,000 migrants stormed Ceuta, security forces in the Spanish territory have warned the situation remains far from normal.
Socialist minister Ángel Víctor Torres headed to the Spanish city, an exclave on the North African coast, on Monday to assess the migratory crisis and meet with the conservative city’s mayor Juan Jesús Vivas.
The meeting happens one day after more than 15,000 people demonstrated in Ceuta calling for the resignation of Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister, and Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, over what they claimed was a poor response to the crisis.
The government has repeatedly said 70,000 migrants returned voluntarily to Morocco. However, Vivas estimates that between 8,000 and 11,000 remain in Ceuta, a city of just about 84,000 people.
