Ninety percent resolved itself by Saturday.

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August 2, 2026 · Ibid.

On a concrete breakwater in Ceuta at hard noon, Pedro Sanchez speaks from a portable lectern; three anonymous grey-suited EU ministers stand beside a flipchart headed VOLUNTARY SOLIDARITY bearing a single column of zeros. Far behind them, small and blurred, local residents hand bottled water to people in foil blankets. In the foreground, directly beneath the zeros, a deflated black inner tube lies in a pool of water among scattered flip-flops.

An estimated 60,000 Moroccans entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in little over 24 hours, and dozens died in the attempt. Around 90 percent had returned to Morocco by Saturday night, with police divers still recovering bodies from the waters around the 19-square-kilometre territory. Spain's government blamed criminal trafficking gangs while opposition politicians blamed its immigration policy; Reform UK's Zia Yusuf visited and told his X followers the men were trying to reach Britain, a claim no one interviewed by the reporter made.