{"id":1152847,"date":"2026-08-17T02:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152847\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:09:17","slug":"second-ceuta-border-push-falls-flat-with-security-forces-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1152847\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Ceuta border push falls flat with security forces ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grassroots calls for a second incursion into Ceuta from Morocco fell flat over the weekend, with security tight and authorities turning back the relative handful who tried to make the move.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s tiny North African enclave made global headlines in late July when some 70,000 people, mostly young men, crossed the border by swimming around the breakwater that separated Ceuta from Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The mass incursion \u2014 into a city whose population is about 85,000\u00a0\u2014 sparked a migration crisis across the European Union and the Schengen zone. At least 88 died in the attempt. The vast majority of the would-be migrants have since returned to Morocco, according to Spain\u2019s government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grassroots calls for a second incursion into Ceuta from Morocco fell flat over the weekend, with security tight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1152848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[143021,2000,299,313586,28981,6657,6489,104],"class_list":["post-1152847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-ceuta","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-human-smuggling","tag-human-trafficking","tag-migration","tag-morocco","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117108419046375994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}