Word that the border gate had opened drew crowds, days after a Supreme Court ruling weakened Spainish authorities' power to summarily return sea migrants

Footage shows crowds of people, mainly Moroccans, walking around the breakwaters at Tarajal beach in Ceuta and running on the beach and roads

Hundreds of migrants entered the Spanish north African exclave of Ceuta on Thursday, AFP reporters saw, many of them having swum by sea around the frontier fence.

Madrid angry at court ruling blocking immediate return of people arriving by sea